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The Moon on Saturday, August 22, 1959: Waning Gibbous, 84% lit

Waning · 83.8% lit · ♈︎ Aries 16°

Moon age

17.9days

Moon phase on August 22, 1959Waning Gibbous

Saturday 22 August 1959395,867 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, August 22, 1959, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 83.8% of its visible face lit, 17.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

83.8%Illumination at noon UTC
17.9 dMoon age
395,867 km245,981 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (16°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 22, 1959 is on Tuesday, August 18, 1959 at 12:51 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 3, 1959 at 01:56 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, August 18, 195912:51
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, August 26, 195908:03

The Moon around August 22

More about this date

Saturday, August 22, 1959 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 4, 1959 to the new moon of September 3, 1959, a cycle of 29.47 days.