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The Moon on Saturday, August 19, 1972: Waxing Gibbous, 73% lit

Waxing · 72.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 23°

Moon age

10.3days

Moon phase on August 19, 1972Waxing Gibbous

Saturday 19 August 1972399,083 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, August 19, 1972, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 72.8% of its visible face lit, 10.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

72.8%Illumination at noon UTC
10.3 dMoon age
399,083 km247,979 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (24°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 19, 1972 is on Thursday, August 24, 1972 at 18:22 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, August 9, 1972 at 05:26 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, August 17, 197201:09
Full Moon (after)Thursday, August 24, 197218:22

The Moon around August 19

More about this date

Saturday, August 19, 1972 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 9, 1972 to the new moon of September 7, 1972, a cycle of 29.50 days.