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The Moon on Monday, August 22, 1960: New Moon, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.0% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 00°

New Moon at

09:15UTC

Moon phase on August 22, 1960New Moon

Monday 22 August 1960397,645 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, August 22, 1960, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.0% of its visible face lit, 29.7 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.0%Illumination at noon UTC
29.7 dMoon age
397,645 km247,085 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (1°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 22, 1960 is on Monday, September 5, 1960 at 11:19 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 22, 1960 at 09:15 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, August 14, 196005:37
New Moon (this day)Monday, August 22, 196009:15
First Quarter (after)Monday, August 29, 196019:22

The Moon around August 22

More about this date

Monday, August 22, 1960 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 22, 1960 to the new moon of September 20, 1960, a cycle of 29.58 days.