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The Moon on Sunday, August 25, 1974: Waxing Gibbous, 59% lit

Waxing · 58.6% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 11°

Moon age

7.7days

Moon phase on August 25, 1974Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 25 August 1974395,403 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 25, 1974, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 58.6% of its visible face lit, 7.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

58.6%Illumination at noon UTC
7.7 dMoon age
395,403 km245,692 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (12°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 25, 1974 is on Sunday, September 1, 1974 at 19:25 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 17, 1974 at 19:02 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, August 24, 197415:39
Full Moon (after)Sunday, September 1, 197419:25

The Moon around August 25

More about this date

Sunday, August 25, 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.