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The Moon on Friday, August 8, 1975: Waxing Crescent, 2% lit

Waxing · 1.7% lit · ♌︎ Leo 29°

Moon age

1.0days

Moon phase on August 8, 1975Waxing Crescent

Friday 8 August 1975360,031 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 8, 1975, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 1.7% of its visible face lit, 1.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.7%Illumination at noon UTC
1.0 dMoon age
360,031 km223,713 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (29°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 8, 1975 is on Thursday, August 21, 1975 at 19:48 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, August 7, 1975 at 11:57 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, August 7, 197511:57
First Quarter (after)Thursday, August 14, 197502:24

The Moon around August 8

More about this date

Friday, August 8, 1975 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 7, 1975 to the new moon of September 5, 1975, a cycle of 29.31 days.