Skip to content
The Moon on Wednesday, August 7, 1963: Waning Gibbous, 95% lit

Waning · 94.5% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 11°

Moon age

17.6days

Moon phase on August 7, 1963Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 7 August 1963373,590 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 7, 1963, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 94.5% of its visible face lit, 17.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

94.5%Illumination at noon UTC
17.6 dMoon age
373,590 km232,138 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (11°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 7, 1963 is on Monday, August 5, 1963 at 09:31 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 19, 1963 at 07:35 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, August 5, 196309:31
Last Quarter (after)Monday, August 12, 196306:21

The Moon around August 7

More about this date

Wednesday, August 7, 1963 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 20, 1963 to the new moon of August 19, 1963, a cycle of 29.45 days.