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The Moon on Friday, August 27, 1993: Waxing Gibbous, 81% lit

Waxing · 80.5% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 11°

Moon age

9.7days

Moon phase on August 27, 1993Waxing Gibbous

Friday 27 August 1993390,216 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 27, 1993, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 80.5% of its visible face lit, 9.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

80.5%Illumination at noon UTC
9.7 dMoon age
390,216 km242,469 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (12°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 27, 1993 is on Wednesday, September 1, 1993 at 02:33 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 17, 1993 at 19:28 UTC, 10 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 27

More about this date

Friday, August 27, 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.