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The Moon on Monday, August 4, 2014: First Quarter, 55% lit

Waxing · 55.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 17°

First Quarter at

00:50UTC

Moon phase on August 4, 2014First Quarter

Monday 4 August 2014384,035 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, August 4, 2014, the Moon was a First Quarter: 55.0% of its visible face lit, 8.6 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

55.0%Illumination at noon UTC
8.6 dMoon age
384,035 km238,628 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (18°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 4, 2014 is on Sunday, August 10, 2014 at 18:09 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, July 26, 2014 at 22:42 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, July 26, 201422:42
First Quarter (this day)Monday, August 4, 201400:50
Full Moon (after)Sunday, August 10, 201418:09

The Moon around August 4

More about this date

Monday, August 4, 2014 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 26, 2014 to the new moon of August 25, 2014, a cycle of 29.65 days.