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The Moon on Thursday, August 16, 1962: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.3% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 02°

Moon age

16.0days

Moon phase on August 16, 1962Waning Gibbous

Thursday 16 August 1962360,991 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 16, 1962, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 16.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
16.0 dMoon age
360,991 km224,309 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (2°)
33.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 16, 1962 is on Wednesday, August 15, 1962 at 20:09 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, August 30, 1962 at 03:09 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, August 15, 196220:09
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, August 22, 196210:26

The Moon around August 16

More about this date

Thursday, August 16, 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.