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The Moon on Monday, August 26, 1991: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 98.6% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 15°

Moon age

16.4days

Moon phase on August 26, 1991Waning Gibbous

Monday 26 August 1991393,970 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, August 26, 1991, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 98.6% of its visible face lit, 16.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

98.6%Illumination at noon UTC
16.4 dMoon age
393,970 km244,802 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (16°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 26, 1991 is on Sunday, August 25, 1991 at 09:07 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, September 8, 1991 at 11:01 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, August 25, 199109:07
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, September 1, 199118:16

The Moon around August 26

More about this date

Monday, August 26, 1991 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 10, 1991 to the new moon of September 8, 1991, a cycle of 29.36 days.