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The Moon on Tuesday, August 22, 1978: Waning Gibbous, 79% lit

Waning · 79.3% lit · ♈︎ Aries 23°

Moon age

18.5days

Moon phase on August 22, 1978Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 22 August 1978379,657 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 22, 1978, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 79.3% of its visible face lit, 18.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

79.3%Illumination at noon UTC
18.5 dMoon age
379,657 km235,908 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (23°)
31.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 22, 1978 is on Friday, August 18, 1978 at 10:14 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, September 2, 1978 at 16:09 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, August 18, 197810:14
Last Quarter (after)Friday, August 25, 197812:18

The Moon around August 22

More about this date

Tuesday, August 22, 1978 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 4, 1978 to the new moon of September 2, 1978, a cycle of 29.63 days.