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The Moon on Tuesday, August 30, 1960: Waxing Gibbous, 58% lit

Waxing · 58.0% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 16°

Moon age

8.1days

Moon phase on August 30, 1960Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 30 August 1960370,258 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 30, 1960, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 58.0% of its visible face lit, 8.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

58.0%Illumination at noon UTC
8.1 dMoon age
370,258 km230,068 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (16°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 30, 1960 is on Monday, September 5, 1960 at 11:19 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 22, 1960 at 09:15 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, August 29, 196019:22
Full Moon (after)Monday, September 5, 196011:19

The Moon around August 30

More about this date

Tuesday, August 30, 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.