Daily lunar detail

August 2007 Moon Calendar

The month opens with a Waning Gibbous and closes with a Waning Gibbous. It contains 4 exact major phase events.

Icons use the common Northern Hemisphere convention: waxing light on the right, waning light on the left. Your sky may appear rotated at other latitudes.

Last QuarterAugust 5, 2007 at 9:20 PM UTC
New MoonAugust 12, 2007 at 11:03 PM UTC
First QuarterAugust 20, 2007 at 11:54 PM UTC
Full MoonAugust 28, 2007 at 10:35 AM UTC

The lunar story of August 2007

New Moon occurs August 12, 2007. Full Moon occurs August 28, 2007. The first major event is Last Quarter on August 5, 2007, and the month progresses from 93% to 87% illumination at noon UTC on its boundary dates.

Choosing a day

Select any Moon to open its precise phase angle, illuminated fraction, elapsed age since New Moon, trend, and neighboring event. Date result pages remain shareable but are excluded from search indexing.

Questions, answered

Frequently asked questions

What time are daily phases calculated?

12:00 UTC, chosen deliberately to keep date-only selections stable worldwide.

Why can a local phase event fall on another date?

An event near 00:00 UTC may occur on the previous local date west of Greenwich or the next local date east of it.

Do the icons show sky orientation?

They use a Northern Hemisphere convention; actual orientation rotates with latitude and viewing angle.