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The Moon on Tuesday, August 11, 1987: Waning Gibbous, 94% lit

Waning · 93.8% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 17°

Moon age

16.6days

Moon phase on August 11, 1987Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 11 August 1987364,276 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 11, 1987, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 93.8% of its visible face lit, 16.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

93.8%Illumination at noon UTC
16.6 dMoon age
364,276 km226,351 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (17°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 11, 1987 is on Sunday, August 9, 1987 at 10:17 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 24, 1987 at 11:59 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, August 9, 198710:17
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, August 16, 198708:25

The Moon around August 11

More about this date

Tuesday, August 11, 1987 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 25, 1987 to the new moon of August 24, 1987, a cycle of 29.64 days.