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The Moon on Sunday, August 25, 1968: Waxing Crescent, 3% lit

Waxing · 2.7% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 21°

Moon age

1.5days

Moon phase on August 25, 1968Waxing Crescent

Sunday 25 August 1968378,443 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 25, 1968, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 2.7% of its visible face lit, 1.5 days after the new moon and growing each night.

2.7%Illumination at noon UTC
1.5 dMoon age
378,443 km235,153 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (21°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 25, 1968 is on Friday, September 6, 1968 at 22:07 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 23, 1968 at 23:57 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, August 23, 196823:57
First Quarter (after)Friday, August 30, 196823:35

The Moon around August 25

More about this date

Sunday, August 25, 1968 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 23, 1968 to the new moon of September 22, 1968, a cycle of 29.47 days.