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The Moon on Sunday, August 20, 2006: Waning Crescent, 10% lit

Waning · 10.2% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 20°

Moon age

26.3days

Moon phase on August 20, 2006Waning Crescent

Sunday 20 August 2006396,416 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 20, 2006, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 10.2% of its visible face lit, 26.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

10.2%Illumination at noon UTC
26.3 dMoon age
396,416 km246,321 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (20°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 20, 2006 is on Wednesday, August 9, 2006 at 10:54 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 at 19:10 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, August 16, 200601:51
New Moon (after)Wednesday, August 23, 200619:10

The Moon around August 20

More about this date

Sunday, August 20, 2006 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 25, 2006 to the new moon of August 23, 2006, a cycle of 29.61 days.