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The Moon on Saturday, August 20, 2005: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.1% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 08°

Moon age

15.4days

Moon phase on August 20, 2005Waning Gibbous

Saturday 20 August 2005358,934 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, August 20, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.1% of its visible face lit, 15.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.1%Illumination at noon UTC
15.4 dMoon age
358,934 km223,031 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (8°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 20, 2005 is on Friday, August 19, 2005 at 17:53 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, September 3, 2005 at 18:46 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, August 19, 200517:53
Last Quarter (after)Friday, August 26, 200515:18

The Moon around August 20

More about this date

Saturday, August 20, 2005 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 5, 2005 to the new moon of September 3, 2005, a cycle of 29.65 days.