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The Moon on Sunday, August 29, 1971: First Quarter, 54% lit

Waxing · 53.9% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 09°

First Quarter at

02:56UTC

Moon phase on August 29, 1971First Quarter

Sunday 29 August 1971393,865 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 29, 1971, the Moon was a First Quarter: 53.9% of its visible face lit, 8.5 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

53.9%Illumination at noon UTC
8.5 dMoon age
393,865 km244,736 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (10°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 29, 1971 is on Sunday, September 5, 1971 at 04:02 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 20, 1971 at 22:54 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, August 20, 197122:54
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, August 29, 197102:56
Full Moon (after)Sunday, September 5, 197104:02

The Moon around August 29

More about this date

Sunday, August 29, 1971 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 20, 1971 to the new moon of September 19, 1971, a cycle of 29.66 days.