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The Moon on Tuesday, August 30, 1977: Waning Gibbous, 97% lit

Waning · 96.8% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 27°

Moon age

15.6days

Moon phase on August 30, 1977Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 30 August 1977384,383 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 30, 1977, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 96.8% of its visible face lit, 15.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

96.8%Illumination at noon UTC
15.6 dMoon age
384,383 km238,844 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (28°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 30, 1977 is on Sunday, August 28, 1977 at 20:10 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, September 13, 1977 at 09:23 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, August 28, 197720:10
Last Quarter (after)Monday, September 5, 197714:33

The Moon around August 30

More about this date

Tuesday, August 30, 1977 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 14, 1977 to the new moon of September 13, 1977, a cycle of 29.49 days.