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The Moon on Friday, August 21, 1964: Waxing Gibbous, 97% lit

Waxing · 96.9% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 08°

Moon age

13.7days

Moon phase on August 21, 1964Waxing Gibbous

Friday 21 August 1964396,963 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 21, 1964, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 96.9% of its visible face lit, 13.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

96.9%Illumination at noon UTC
13.7 dMoon age
396,963 km246,661 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (8°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 21, 1964 is on Sunday, August 23, 1964 at 05:25 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 7, 1964 at 19:17 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, August 15, 196403:19
Full Moon (after)Sunday, August 23, 196405:25

The Moon around August 21

More about this date

Friday, August 21, 1964 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 7, 1964 to the new moon of September 6, 1964, a cycle of 29.39 days.