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The Moon on Monday, August 26, 1974: Waxing Gibbous, 68% lit

Waxing · 68.0% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 23°

Moon age

8.7days

Moon phase on August 26, 1974Waxing Gibbous

Monday 26 August 1974399,523 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, August 26, 1974, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 68.0% of its visible face lit, 8.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

68.0%Illumination at noon UTC
8.7 dMoon age
399,523 km248,252 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (24°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 26, 1974 is on Sunday, September 1, 1974 at 19:25 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 17, 1974 at 19:02 UTC, 9 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 26

More about this date

Monday, August 26, 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.