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15 August 1969 Waxing Crescent, 7% lit

Woodstock

Woodstock opened under a 7% crescent, less than a month after Apollo 11 left.

The same summer produced the largest audience ever assembled in a New York field and the first human footprints on another world, which is a reasonable claim for the strangest eight weeks of the twentieth century.

Date
15 August 1969
Moon computed for
18:00 local time, UTC−4
Phase
Waxing Crescent
Illuminated
7%

Source: Contemporary press accounts

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