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The Moon on Thursday, August 24, 2006: Waxing Crescent, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 08°

Moon age

0.7days

Moon phase on August 24, 2006Waxing Crescent

Thursday 24 August 2006405,370 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 24, 2006, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.5% of its visible face lit, 0.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.5%Illumination at noon UTC
0.7 dMoon age
405,370 km251,885 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (9°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 24, 2006 is on Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 18:42 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 at 19:10 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Wednesday, August 23, 200619:10
First Quarter (after)Thursday, August 31, 200622:57

The Moon around August 24

More about this date

Thursday, August 24, 2006 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 23, 2006 to the new moon of September 22, 2006, a cycle of 29.69 days.