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The Moon on Friday, August 22, 1975: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.4% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 06°

Moon age

15.0days

Moon phase on August 22, 1975Waning Gibbous

Friday 22 August 1975405,170 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 22, 1975, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.4% of its visible face lit, 15.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.4%Illumination at noon UTC
15.0 dMoon age
405,170 km251,761 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (6°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 22, 1975 is on Thursday, August 21, 1975 at 19:48 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 5, 1975 at 19:19 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, August 21, 197519:48
Last Quarter (after)Friday, August 29, 197523:20

The Moon around August 22

More about this date

Friday, August 22, 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.