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The Moon on Friday, August 29, 1969: Waning Gibbous, 94% lit

Waning · 94.3% lit · ♈︎ Aries 03°

Moon age

16.3days

Moon phase on August 29, 1969Waning Gibbous

Friday 29 August 1969372,640 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 29, 1969, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 94.3% of its visible face lit, 16.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

94.3%Illumination at noon UTC
16.3 dMoon age
372,640 km231,548 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (4°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 29, 1969 is on Wednesday, August 27, 1969 at 10:32 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 11, 1969 at 19:56 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, August 27, 196910:32
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, September 3, 196916:58

The Moon around August 29

More about this date

Friday, August 29, 1969 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 13, 1969 to the new moon of September 11, 1969, a cycle of 29.61 days.