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The Moon on Friday, August 31, 2007: Waning Gibbous, 87% lit

Waning · 87.4% lit · ♈︎ Aries 19°

Moon age

18.5days

Moon phase on August 31, 2007Waning Gibbous

Friday 31 August 2007364,314 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 31, 2007, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 87.4% of its visible face lit, 18.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

87.4%Illumination at noon UTC
18.5 dMoon age
364,314 km226,374 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (19°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 31, 2007 is on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 10:35 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at 12:44 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, August 28, 200710:35
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, September 4, 200702:32

The Moon around August 31

More about this date

Friday, August 31, 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.