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The Moon on Friday, August 26, 1955: Waxing Gibbous, 61% lit

Waxing · 60.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 14°

Moon age

8.7days

Moon phase on August 26, 1955Waxing Gibbous

Friday 26 August 1955404,174 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 26, 1955, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 60.8% of its visible face lit, 8.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

60.8%Illumination at noon UTC
8.7 dMoon age
404,174 km251,142 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (15°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 26, 1955 is on Friday, September 2, 1955 at 07:59 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, August 17, 1955 at 19:58 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, August 25, 195508:52
Full Moon (after)Friday, September 2, 195507:59

The Moon around August 26

More about this date

Friday, August 26, 1955 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 17, 1955 to the new moon of September 16, 1955, a cycle of 29.43 days.