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The Moon on Sunday, August 27, 1972: Waning Gibbous, 90% lit

Waning · 90.3% lit · ♈︎ Aries 10°

Moon age

18.3days

Moon phase on August 27, 1972Waning Gibbous

Sunday 27 August 1972368,632 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 27, 1972, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 90.3% of its visible face lit, 18.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

90.3%Illumination at noon UTC
18.3 dMoon age
368,632 km229,057 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (10°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 27, 1972 is on Thursday, August 24, 1972 at 18:22 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 7, 1972 at 17:29 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, August 24, 197218:22
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, August 31, 197212:48

The Moon around August 27

More about this date

Sunday, August 27, 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.