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The Moon on Tuesday, August 25, 1959: Waning Gibbous, 58% lit

Waning · 58.0% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 22°

Moon age

20.9days

Moon phase on August 25, 1959Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 25 August 1959403,822 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 25, 1959, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 58.0% of its visible face lit, 20.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

58.0%Illumination at noon UTC
20.9 dMoon age
403,822 km250,923 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (22°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 25, 1959 is on Tuesday, August 18, 1959 at 12:51 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 3, 1959 at 01:56 UTC, 9 days later.

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

The Moon around August 25

More about this date

Tuesday, August 25, 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.