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The Moon on Thursday, August 9, 1962: Waxing Gibbous, 58% lit

Waxing · 58.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 25°

Moon age

9.0days

Moon phase on August 9, 1962Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 9 August 1962394,824 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 9, 1962, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 58.4% of its visible face lit, 9.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

58.4%Illumination at noon UTC
9.0 dMoon age
394,824 km245,332 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (26°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 9, 1962 is on Wednesday, August 15, 1962 at 20:09 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, July 31, 1962 at 12:24 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Wednesday, August 8, 196215:55
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, August 15, 196220:09

The Moon around August 9

More about this date

Thursday, August 9, 1962 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 31, 1962 to the new moon of August 30, 1962, a cycle of 29.61 days.