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The Moon on Wednesday, August 14, 2013: First Quarter, 51% lit

Waxing · 50.6% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 22°

First Quarter at

10:56UTC

Moon phase on August 14, 2013First Quarter

Wednesday 14 August 2013373,881 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 14, 2013, the Moon was a First Quarter: 50.6% of its visible face lit, 7.6 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

50.6%Illumination at noon UTC
7.6 dMoon age
373,881 km232,319 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (22°)
31.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 14, 2013 is on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 01:45 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 6, 2013 at 21:51 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, August 6, 201321:51
First Quarter (this day)Wednesday, August 14, 201310:56
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, August 21, 201301:45

The Moon around August 14

More about this date

Wednesday, August 14, 2013 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 6, 2013 to the new moon of September 5, 2013, a cycle of 29.57 days.