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The Moon on Sunday, August 28, 1983: Waning Gibbous, 79% lit

Waning · 79.0% lit · ♈︎ Aries 29°

Moon age

19.7days

Moon phase on August 28, 1983Waning Gibbous

Sunday 28 August 1983394,163 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 28, 1983, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 79.0% of its visible face lit, 19.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

79.0%Illumination at noon UTC
19.7 dMoon age
394,163 km244,921 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (29°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 28, 1983 is on Tuesday, August 23, 1983 at 14:59 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, September 7, 1983 at 02:35 UTC, 10 days later.

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

The Moon around August 28

More about this date

Sunday, August 28, 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.