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The Moon on Wednesday, August 30, 2006: Waxing Crescent, 36% lit

Waxing · 35.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 20°

Moon age

6.7days

Moon phase on August 30, 2006Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 30 August 2006397,225 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 30, 2006, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 35.7% of its visible face lit, 6.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

35.7%Illumination at noon UTC
6.7 dMoon age
397,225 km246,824 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (20°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 30, 2006 is on Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 18:42 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 at 19:10 UTC, 7 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 30

More about this date

Wednesday, August 30, 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.