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The Moon on Friday, August 12, 2005: Waxing Crescent, 44% lit

Waxing · 43.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 12°

Moon age

7.4days

Moon phase on August 12, 2005Waxing Crescent

Friday 12 August 2005385,944 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 12, 2005, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 43.7% of its visible face lit, 7.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

43.7%Illumination at noon UTC
7.4 dMoon age
385,944 km239,814 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (12°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 12, 2005 is on Friday, August 19, 2005 at 17:53 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 5, 2005 at 03:05 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, August 5, 200503:05
First Quarter (after)Saturday, August 13, 200502:39

The Moon around August 12

More about this date

Friday, August 12, 2005 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 5, 2005 to the new moon of September 3, 2005, a cycle of 29.65 days.