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The Moon on Saturday, August 23, 1975: Waning Gibbous, 97% lit

Waning · 97.3% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 18°

Moon age

16.0days

Moon phase on August 23, 1975Waning Gibbous

Saturday 23 August 1975406,009 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, August 23, 1975, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 97.3% of its visible face lit, 16.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

97.3%Illumination at noon UTC
16.0 dMoon age
406,009 km252,282 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (18°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 23, 1975 is on Thursday, August 21, 1975 at 19:48 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 5, 1975 at 19:19 UTC, 13 days later.

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

The Moon around August 23

More about this date

Saturday, August 23, 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.