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The Moon on Tuesday, August 29, 1972: Waning Gibbous, 73% lit

Waning · 72.8% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 09°

Moon age

20.3days

Moon phase on August 29, 1972Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 29 August 1972368,006 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 29, 1972, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 72.8% of its visible face lit, 20.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

72.8%Illumination at noon UTC
20.3 dMoon age
368,006 km228,668 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (9°)
32.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 29, 1972 is on Thursday, August 24, 1972 at 18:22 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 7, 1972 at 17:29 UTC, 9 days later.

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

The Moon around August 29

More about this date

Tuesday, August 29, 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.