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The Moon on Thursday, August 14, 1975: First Quarter, 54% lit

Waxing · 54.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 26°

First Quarter at

02:24UTC

Moon phase on August 14, 1975First Quarter

Thursday 14 August 1975379,026 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 14, 1975, the Moon was a First Quarter: 54.5% of its visible face lit, 7.0 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

54.5%Illumination at noon UTC
7.0 dMoon age
379,026 km235,516 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (26°)
31.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 14, 1975 is on Thursday, August 21, 1975 at 19:48 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, August 7, 1975 at 11:57 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, August 7, 197511:57
First Quarter (this day)Thursday, August 14, 197502:24
Full Moon (after)Thursday, August 21, 197519:48

The Moon around August 14

More about this date

Thursday, August 14, 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.