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The Moon on Sunday, August 26, 2001: Waxing Gibbous, 57% lit

Waxing · 57.0% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 11°

Moon age

7.4days

Moon phase on August 26, 2001Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 26 August 2001389,609 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 26, 2001, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 57.0% of its visible face lit, 7.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

57.0%Illumination at noon UTC
7.4 dMoon age
389,609 km242,092 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (11°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 26, 2001 is on Sunday, September 2, 2001 at 21:43 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 19, 2001 at 02:55 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, August 25, 200119:55
Full Moon (after)Sunday, September 2, 200121:43

The Moon around August 26

More about this date

Sunday, August 26, 2001 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 19, 2001 to the new moon of September 17, 2001, a cycle of 29.31 days.