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The Moon on Sunday, August 31, 1958: Waning Gibbous, 95% lit

Waning · 95.3% lit · ♈︎ Aries 02°

Moon age

16.4days

Moon phase on August 31, 1958Waning Gibbous

Sunday 31 August 1958403,701 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 31, 1958, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.3% of its visible face lit, 16.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.3%Illumination at noon UTC
16.4 dMoon age
403,701 km250,848 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (3°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 31, 1958 is on Friday, August 29, 1958 at 05:54 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, September 13, 1958 at 12:02 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, August 29, 195805:54
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, September 6, 195810:24

The Moon around August 31

More about this date

Sunday, August 31, 1958 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 15, 1958 to the new moon of September 13, 1958, a cycle of 29.35 days.