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The Moon on Sunday, August 24, 1975: Waning Gibbous, 94% lit

Waning · 93.5% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 29°

Moon age

17.0days

Moon phase on August 24, 1975Waning Gibbous

Sunday 24 August 1975406,120 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 24, 1975, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 93.5% of its visible face lit, 17.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

93.5%Illumination at noon UTC
17.0 dMoon age
406,120 km252,351 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (30°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 24, 1975 is on Thursday, August 21, 1975 at 19:48 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 5, 1975 at 19:19 UTC, 12 days later.

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

The Moon around August 24

More about this date

Sunday, August 24, 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.