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The Moon on Wednesday, August 13, 1975: Waxing Crescent, 43% lit

Waxing · 43.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 12°

Moon age

6.0days

Moon phase on August 13, 1975Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 13 August 1975374,148 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 13, 1975, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 43.5% of its visible face lit, 6.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

43.5%Illumination at noon UTC
6.0 dMoon age
374,148 km232,485 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (13°)
31.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 13, 1975 is on Thursday, August 21, 1975 at 19:48 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, August 7, 1975 at 11:57 UTC, 6 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 13

More about this date

Wednesday, August 13, 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.