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The Moon on Sunday, August 21, 1983: Waxing Gibbous, 96% lit

Waxing · 95.9% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 04°

Moon age

12.7days

Moon phase on August 21, 1983Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 21 August 1983405,977 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 21, 1983, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 95.9% of its visible face lit, 12.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

95.9%Illumination at noon UTC
12.7 dMoon age
405,977 km252,262 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (5°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 21, 1983 is on Tuesday, August 23, 1983 at 14:59 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 8, 1983 at 19:18 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, August 15, 198312:47
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, August 23, 198314:59

The Moon around August 21

More about this date

Sunday, August 21, 1983 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 8, 1983 to the new moon of September 7, 1983, a cycle of 29.30 days.