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The Moon on Wednesday, August 27, 1975: Waning Gibbous, 74% lit

Waning · 73.6% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 05°

Moon age

20.0days

Moon phase on August 27, 1975Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 27 August 1975401,114 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 27, 1975, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 73.6% of its visible face lit, 20.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

73.6%Illumination at noon UTC
20.0 dMoon age
401,114 km249,241 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (6°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 27, 1975 is on Thursday, August 21, 1975 at 19:48 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 5, 1975 at 19:19 UTC, 9 days later.

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

The Moon around August 27

More about this date

Wednesday, August 27, 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.