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August 1979 has 31 days, spanning lunar months leap 6 / 7. Qixi: 29 Aug. Full moon: 8 Aug. New moon: 23 Aug. Beginning of Autumn: 8 Aug. End of Heat: 24 Aug.
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Lunar 1979 leap month 6 into 1979 month 7 · Yin Earth Goat 己未 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Water Monkey · 壬申
- Solar terms
- Beginning of Autumn · 8 at 11:10:53 UTC+8; End of Heat · 24 at 01:46:43 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 22 August 1979 closes lunar 1979 leap month 6; lunar 1979 month 7 begins 23 August 1979.
Lunar-year structure
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Lunar 1979
13 lunar months · 384 days · leap month 6 (30 days).
August 1979 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
August 1979 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar leap 6/9
Full moon
Lunar leap 6/16
Last quarter
Lunar leap 6/23
New moon
Lunar 7/1
First quarter
Lunar 7/9
Calculated phase moments use fixed UTC+8. A lunar day number and a Moon phase describe different things. How they fit together →
Boundaries & marked days
What happens in August 1979
- 23 August 1979 — lunar 1979 leap month 6 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 1979 month 7 opens.
- 8 August 1979 at 11:10:53 UTC+8 — Beginning of Autumn, 立秋 Lìqiū, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 24 August 1979 at 01:46:43 UTC+8 — End of Heat, 处暑 Chǔshǔ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 7 August 1979 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 6, which falls near the full moon.
- 23 August 1979 — the first day of lunar month 7.
- 29 August 1979 — Qixi, lunar 7/7. The seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the double-seventh.