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The Moon on Wednesday, August 24, 1983: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.1% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 10°

Moon age

15.7days

Moon phase on August 24, 1983Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 24 August 1983404,784 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 24, 1983, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.1% of its visible face lit, 15.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.1%Illumination at noon UTC
15.7 dMoon age
404,784 km251,521 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (10°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 24, 1983 is on Tuesday, August 23, 1983 at 14:59 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, September 7, 1983 at 02:35 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, August 23, 198314:59
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, August 31, 198311:22

The Moon around August 24

More about this date

Wednesday, August 24, 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.