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The Moon on Tuesday, August 25, 1953: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.3% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 11°

Moon age

15.8days

Moon phase on August 25, 1953Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 25 August 1953358,438 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 25, 1953, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 15.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
15.8 dMoon age
358,438 km222,723 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (11°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 25, 1953 is on Monday, August 24, 1953 at 20:21 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, September 8, 1953 at 07:48 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, August 24, 195320:21
Last Quarter (after)Monday, August 31, 195310:46

The Moon around August 25

More about this date

Tuesday, August 25, 1953 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 9, 1953 to the new moon of September 8, 1953, a cycle of 29.65 days.