Skip to content
The Moon on Thursday, August 14, 1986: Waxing Gibbous, 66% lit

Waxing · 65.9% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 09°

Moon age

8.7days

Moon phase on August 14, 1986Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 14 August 1986368,080 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 14, 1986, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 65.9% of its visible face lit, 8.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

65.9%Illumination at noon UTC
8.7 dMoon age
368,080 km228,714 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (10°)
32.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 14, 1986 is on Tuesday, August 19, 1986 at 18:54 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 5, 1986 at 18:36 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Wednesday, August 13, 198602:22
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, August 19, 198618:54

The Moon around August 14

More about this date

Thursday, August 14, 1986 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 5, 1986 to the new moon of September 4, 1986, a cycle of 29.52 days.