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The Moon on Tuesday, August 28, 1906: Waxing Gibbous, 67% lit

Waxing · 66.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 23°

Moon age

8.4days

Moon phase on August 28, 1906Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 28 August 1906370,059 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 28, 1906, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 66.7% of its visible face lit, 8.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

66.7%Illumination at noon UTC
8.4 dMoon age
370,059 km229,944 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (24°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 28, 1906 is on Sunday, September 2, 1906 at 23:36 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 20, 1906 at 01:27 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, August 27, 190600:42
Full Moon (after)Sunday, September 2, 190623:36

The Moon around August 28

More about this date

Tuesday, August 28, 1906 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 20, 1906 to the new moon of September 18, 1906, a cycle of 29.46 days.