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The Moon on Thursday, August 26, 1993: Waxing Gibbous, 72% lit

Waxing · 71.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 28°

Moon age

8.7days

Moon phase on August 26, 1993Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 26 August 1993386,035 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 26, 1993, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 71.8% of its visible face lit, 8.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

71.8%Illumination at noon UTC
8.7 dMoon age
386,035 km239,871 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (29°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 26, 1993 is on Wednesday, September 1, 1993 at 02:33 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 17, 1993 at 19:28 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, August 24, 199309:57
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, September 1, 199302:33

The Moon around August 26

More about this date

Thursday, August 26, 1993 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 17, 1993 to the new moon of September 16, 1993, a cycle of 29.32 days.