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The Moon on Tuesday, August 19, 1975: Waxing Gibbous, 95% lit

Waxing · 94.8% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 29°

Moon age

12.0days

Moon phase on August 19, 1975Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 19 August 1975399,067 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 19, 1975, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 94.8% of its visible face lit, 12.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

94.8%Illumination at noon UTC
12.0 dMoon age
399,067 km247,968 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (30°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 19, 1975 is on Thursday, August 21, 1975 at 19:48 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, August 7, 1975 at 11:57 UTC, 12 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 19

More about this date

Tuesday, August 19, 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.