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The Moon on Friday, August 27, 1999: Waning Gibbous, 100% lit

Waning · 99.7% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 10°

Moon age

16.0days

Moon phase on August 27, 1999Waning Gibbous

Friday 27 August 1999381,153 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 27, 1999, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.7% of its visible face lit, 16.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.7%Illumination at noon UTC
16.0 dMoon age
381,153 km236,838 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (10°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 27, 1999 is on Thursday, August 26, 1999 at 23:48 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 9, 1999 at 22:02 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, August 26, 199923:48
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, September 2, 199922:17

The Moon around August 27

More about this date

Friday, August 27, 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.