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The Moon on Sunday, August 12, 1990: Waning Gibbous, 63% lit

Waning · 63.3% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 04°

Moon age

21.4days

Moon phase on August 12, 1990Waning Gibbous

Sunday 12 August 1990371,459 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 12, 1990, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 63.3% of its visible face lit, 21.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

63.3%Illumination at noon UTC
21.4 dMoon age
371,459 km230,814 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (4°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 12, 1990 is on Monday, August 6, 1990 at 14:20 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 20, 1990 at 12:39 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, August 6, 199014:20
Last Quarter (after)Monday, August 13, 199015:54

The Moon around August 12

More about this date

Sunday, August 12, 1990 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 22, 1990 to the new moon of August 20, 1990, a cycle of 29.41 days.