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The Moon on Sunday, August 22, 1999: Waxing Gibbous, 81% lit

Waxing · 80.5% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 06°

Moon age

11.0days

Moon phase on August 22, 1999Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 22 August 1999400,463 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 22, 1999, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 80.5% of its visible face lit, 11.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

80.5%Illumination at noon UTC
11.0 dMoon age
400,463 km248,836 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (7°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 22, 1999 is on Thursday, August 26, 1999 at 23:48 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, August 11, 1999 at 11:09 UTC, 11 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, August 19, 199901:47
Full Moon (after)Thursday, August 26, 199923:48

The Moon around August 22

More about this date

Sunday, August 22, 1999 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 11, 1999 to the new moon of September 9, 1999, a cycle of 29.45 days.