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The Moon on Thursday, August 19, 1999: First Quarter, 54% lit

Waxing · 54.2% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 00°

First Quarter at

01:47UTC

Moon phase on August 19, 1999First Quarter

Thursday 19 August 1999404,105 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 19, 1999, the Moon was a First Quarter: 54.2% of its visible face lit, 8.0 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

54.2%Illumination at noon UTC
8.0 dMoon age
404,105 km251,099 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (1°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 19, 1999 is on Thursday, August 26, 1999 at 23:48 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, August 11, 1999 at 11:09 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Wednesday, August 11, 199911:09
First Quarter (this day)Thursday, August 19, 199901:47
Full Moon (after)Thursday, August 26, 199923:48

The Moon around August 19

More about this date

Thursday, August 19, 1999 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 11, 1999 to the new moon of September 9, 1999, a cycle of 29.45 days.