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The Moon on Sunday, October 19, 1975: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.5% lit · ♈︎ Aries 17°

Moon age

14.4days

Moon phase on October 19, 1975Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 19 October 1975404,449 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 19, 1975, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.5% of its visible face lit, 14.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.5%Illumination at noon UTC
14.4 dMoon age
404,449 km251,313 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (18°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 19, 1975 is on Monday, October 20, 1975 at 05:06 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, October 5, 1975 at 03:23 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, October 12, 197501:15
Full Moon (after)Monday, October 20, 197505:06

The Moon around October 19

More about this date

Sunday, October 19, 1975 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 5, 1975 to the new moon of November 3, 1975, a cycle of 29.40 days.