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The Moon on Friday, August 7, 1981: First Quarter, 47% lit

Waxing · 47.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 11°

First Quarter at

19:26UTC

Moon phase on August 7, 1981First Quarter

Friday 7 August 1981403,600 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 7, 1981, the Moon was a First Quarter: 47.2% of its visible face lit, 7.3 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

47.2%Illumination at noon UTC
7.3 dMoon age
403,600 km250,786 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (11°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 7, 1981 is on Saturday, August 15, 1981 at 16:37 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, July 31, 1981 at 03:52 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, July 31, 198103:52
First Quarter (this day)Friday, August 7, 198119:26
Full Moon (after)Saturday, August 15, 198116:37

The Moon around August 7

More about this date

Friday, August 7, 1981 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 31, 1981 to the new moon of August 29, 1981, a cycle of 29.45 days.