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The Moon on Monday, August 15, 2005: Waxing Gibbous, 75% lit

Waxing · 75.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 23°

Moon age

10.4days

Moon phase on August 15, 2005Waxing Gibbous

Monday 15 August 2005368,966 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, August 15, 2005, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 75.4% of its visible face lit, 10.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

75.4%Illumination at noon UTC
10.4 dMoon age
368,966 km229,265 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (23°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 15, 2005 is on Friday, August 19, 2005 at 17:53 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 5, 2005 at 03:05 UTC, 10 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 15

More about this date

Monday, August 15, 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.