Skip to content
The Moon on Monday, August 25, 1947: Waxing Gibbous, 69% lit

Waxing · 68.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 23°

Moon age

9.0days

Moon phase on August 25, 1947Waxing Gibbous

Monday 25 August 1947402,977 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, August 25, 1947, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 68.7% of its visible face lit, 9.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

68.7%Illumination at noon UTC
9.0 dMoon age
402,977 km250,398 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (23°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 25, 1947 is on Sunday, August 31, 1947 at 16:34 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 16, 1947 at 11:12 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, August 23, 194712:40
Full Moon (after)Sunday, August 31, 194716:34

The Moon around August 25

More about this date

Monday, August 25, 1947 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 16, 1947 to the new moon of September 14, 1947, a cycle of 29.34 days.