Lunar Calendar Month August 2022 (South Africa)

The Moon is the only natural satellite of the Earth and the fifth largest moon in the Solar System. It is the largest natural satellite in the solar system relative to the size of its planet. The following is information specific for Pretoria, South Africa during August 2022.

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Date and time of moon phases

The information in the following table comes from calculations published by the Astronomical Applications Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory.

Moon phases	Dates	Time
1st quarter	2022-08-05	13:06
full moon	2022-08-12	03:36
3rd quarter	2022-08-19	06:36
new moon	2022-08-27	10:17

Apogee and perigee of the Moon

The following table shows the dates of perigee and apogee of the Moon during August 2022.

Position	Dates	Time	Distance	Notes
Perigee	2022-08-10	19:16	359,829 km
Apogee	2022-08-22	23:54	405,418 km

Moon-Planet Conjunctions

A Moon-planet conjunction occurs when an astronomical object has either the same, or nearly the same, right ascension or the same ecliptic longitude of that of the Moon, as observed from Earth.

Astronomical Objects	Date and Time
Antares	2022-08-07 10:29
Saturn	2022-08-12 05:55
Jupiter	2022-08-15 11:37
Pleiades	2022-08-19 12:32
Mars	2022-08-19 14:16
Pollux	2022-08-24 02:17
Beehive	2022-08-25 03:46
Venus	2022-08-25 22:58

Illumination of the Moon

The following table depicts the illumination of the Moon, calculated at 00:00, throughtout the 31 days of August 2022.

The information of the moon (phases of the moon, cycles of the moon) presented here applies to all the territory of South Africa.

August 2022
w	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 31	1Monday 9.4% illuminated Age:2.9	2Tuesday 16% illuminated Age:3.9	3Wednesday 24.2% illuminated Age:4.8	4Thursday 33.7% illuminated Age:5.8	5Friday 44.1% illuminated Age:6.8	6Saturday 55.1% illuminated Age:7.9	7Sunday 66.1% illuminated Age:8.9
Week 32	8Monday 76.6% illuminated Age:10	9Tuesday 85.9% illuminated Age:11.1	10Wednesday 93.2% illuminated Age:12.3	11Thursday 98% illuminated Age:13.4	12Friday 100% illuminated Age:14.6	13Saturday 98.9% illuminated Age:15.7	14Sunday 95.2% illuminated Age:16.9
Week 33	15Monday 89.1% illuminated Age:17.9	16Tuesday 81.2% illuminated Age:19	17Wednesday 72.3% illuminated Age:20	18Thursday 62.6% illuminated Age:20.9	19Friday 52.8% illuminated Age:21.9	20Saturday 43% illuminated Age:22.8	21Sunday 33.7% illuminated Age:23.7
Week 34	22Monday 25.1% illuminated Age:24.6	23Tuesday 17.4% illuminated Age:25.5	24Wednesday 10.8% illuminated Age:26.4	25Thursday 5.6% illuminated Age:27.3	26Friday 2% illuminated Age:28.2	27Saturday 0.2% illuminated Age:29.1	28Sunday 0.3% illuminated Age:0.5
Week 35	29Monday 2.5% illuminated Age:1.5	30Tuesday 6.7% illuminated Age:2.5	31Wednesday 12.8% illuminated Age:3.4	1Thursday	2Friday	3Saturday	4Sunday
	5Monday	6Tuesday	7Wednesday	8Thursday	9Friday	10Saturday	11Sunday
	12Monday	13Tuesday	14Wednesday	15Thursday	16Friday	17Saturday	18Sunday