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The Moon on Friday, August 15, 1975: Waxing Gibbous, 65% lit

Waxing · 65.0% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 09°

Moon age

8.0days

Moon phase on August 15, 1975Waxing Gibbous

Friday 15 August 1975383,812 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 15, 1975, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 65.0% of its visible face lit, 8.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

65.0%Illumination at noon UTC
8.0 dMoon age
383,812 km238,490 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (9°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 15, 1975 is on Thursday, August 21, 1975 at 19:48 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, August 7, 1975 at 11:57 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, August 14, 197502:24
Full Moon (after)Thursday, August 21, 197519:48

The Moon around August 15

More about this date

Friday, August 15, 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.