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The Moon on Monday, August 20, 2007: First Quarter, 45% lit

Waxing · 45.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 21°

First Quarter at

23:54UTC

Moon phase on August 20, 2007First Quarter

Monday 20 August 2007403,452 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, August 20, 2007, the Moon was a First Quarter: 45.4% of its visible face lit, 7.5 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

45.4%Illumination at noon UTC
7.5 dMoon age
403,452 km250,694 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (22°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 20, 2007 is on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 10:35 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 12, 2007 at 23:03 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, August 12, 200723:03
First Quarter (this day)Monday, August 20, 200723:54
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, August 28, 200710:35

The Moon around August 20

More about this date

Monday, August 20, 2007 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 12, 2007 to the new moon of September 11, 2007, a cycle of 29.57 days.