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The Moon on Friday, September 8, 2006: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.2% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 25°

Moon age

15.7days

Moon phase on September 8, 2006Waning Gibbous

Friday 8 September 2006357,303 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, September 8, 2006, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.2% of its visible face lit, 15.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.2%Illumination at noon UTC
15.7 dMoon age
357,303 km222,018 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (26°)
33.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 8, 2006 is on Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 18:42 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 22, 2006 at 11:45 UTC, 14 days later.

The Moon around September 8

More about this date

Friday, September 8, 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.