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The Moon on Thursday, August 22, 1974: Waxing Crescent, 28% lit

Waxing · 28.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 03°

Moon age

4.7days

Moon phase on August 22, 1974Waxing Crescent

Thursday 22 August 1974378,455 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 22, 1974, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 28.2% of its visible face lit, 4.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

28.2%Illumination at noon UTC
4.7 dMoon age
378,455 km235,161 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (3°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 22, 1974 is on Sunday, September 1, 1974 at 19:25 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 17, 1974 at 19:02 UTC, 5 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 22

More about this date

Thursday, August 22, 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.