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The Moon on Monday, August 27, 2001: Waxing Gibbous, 67% lit

Waxing · 66.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 23°

Moon age

8.4days

Moon phase on August 27, 2001Waxing Gibbous

Monday 27 August 2001394,500 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, August 27, 2001, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 66.8% of its visible face lit, 8.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

66.8%Illumination at noon UTC
8.4 dMoon age
394,500 km245,131 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (24°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 27, 2001 is on Sunday, September 2, 2001 at 21:43 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 19, 2001 at 02:55 UTC, 8 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 27

More about this date

Monday, August 27, 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.