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The Moon on Tuesday, August 28, 2001: Waxing Gibbous, 76% lit

Waxing · 75.7% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 06°

Moon age

9.4days

Moon phase on August 28, 2001Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 28 August 2001398,575 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 28, 2001, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 75.7% of its visible face lit, 9.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

75.7%Illumination at noon UTC
9.4 dMoon age
398,575 km247,663 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (6°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 28, 2001 is on Sunday, September 2, 2001 at 21:43 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 19, 2001 at 02:55 UTC, 9 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 28

More about this date

Tuesday, August 28, 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.