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The Moon on Friday, August 28, 1964: Waning Gibbous, 71% lit

Waning · 70.8% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 10°

Moon age

20.7days

Moon phase on August 28, 1964Waning Gibbous

Friday 28 August 1964374,543 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 28, 1964, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 70.8% of its visible face lit, 20.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

70.8%Illumination at noon UTC
20.7 dMoon age
374,543 km232,730 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (11°)
31.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 28, 1964 is on Sunday, August 23, 1964 at 05:25 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, September 6, 1964 at 04:34 UTC, 9 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, August 23, 196405:25
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, August 30, 196409:15

The Moon around August 28

More about this date

Friday, August 28, 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.