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The Moon on Sunday, August 18, 1974: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 1.0% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 05°

Moon age

30.0days

Moon phase on August 18, 1974Waxing Crescent

Sunday 18 August 1974358,945 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 18, 1974, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 1.0% of its visible face lit, 30.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.0%Illumination at noon UTC
30.0 dMoon age
358,945 km223,038 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (5°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 18, 1974 is on Sunday, September 1, 1974 at 19:25 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 17, 1974 at 19:02 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, August 17, 197419:02
First Quarter (after)Saturday, August 24, 197415:39

The Moon around August 18

More about this date

Sunday, August 18, 1974 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 17, 1974 to the new moon of September 16, 1974, a cycle of 29.32 days.