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The Moon on Friday, August 21, 2043: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.1% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 09°

Moon age

16.4days

Moon phase on August 21, 2043Waning Gibbous

Friday 21 August 2043378,094 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 21, 2043, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 99.1% of its visible face lit, 16.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.1%Illumination at noon UTC
16.4 dMoon age
378,094 km234,936 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (9°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 21, 2043 is on Thursday, August 20, 2043 at 15:04 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 3, 2043 at 13:17 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, August 20, 204315:04
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, August 27, 204313:09

The Moon around August 21

More about this date

Friday, August 21, 2043 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 5, 2043 to the new moon of September 3, 2043, a cycle of 29.45 days.