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The Moon on Tuesday, August 16, 1994: Waxing Gibbous, 75% lit

Waxing · 74.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 22°

Moon age

9.1days

Moon phase on August 16, 1994Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 16 August 1994372,678 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 16, 1994, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 74.7% of its visible face lit, 9.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

74.7%Illumination at noon UTC
9.1 dMoon age
372,678 km231,571 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (23°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 16, 1994 is on Sunday, August 21, 1994 at 06:47 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 7, 1994 at 08:45 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, August 14, 199405:57
Full Moon (after)Sunday, August 21, 199406:47

The Moon around August 16

More about this date

Tuesday, August 16, 1994 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 7, 1994 to the new moon of September 5, 1994, a cycle of 29.41 days.