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The Moon on Thursday, August 23, 2007: Waxing Gibbous, 74% lit

Waxing · 73.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 28°

Moon age

10.5days

Moon phase on August 23, 2007Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 23 August 2007393,149 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 23, 2007, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 73.7% of its visible face lit, 10.5 days after the new moon and growing each night.

73.7%Illumination at noon UTC
10.5 dMoon age
393,149 km244,292 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (28°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 23, 2007 is on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 10:35 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 12, 2007 at 23:03 UTC, 11 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, August 20, 200723:54
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, August 28, 200710:35

The Moon around August 23

More about this date

Thursday, August 23, 2007 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 12, 2007 to the new moon of September 11, 2007, a cycle of 29.57 days.