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The Moon on Sunday, August 14, 2005: Waxing Gibbous, 65% lit

Waxing · 65.0% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 09°

Moon age

9.4days

Moon phase on August 14, 2005Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 14 August 2005374,563 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 14, 2005, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 65.0% of its visible face lit, 9.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

65.0%Illumination at noon UTC
9.4 dMoon age
374,563 km232,742 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (9°)
31.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 14, 2005 is on Friday, August 19, 2005 at 17:53 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 5, 2005 at 03:05 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, August 13, 200502:39
Full Moon (after)Friday, August 19, 200517:53

The Moon around August 14

More about this date

Sunday, August 14, 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.