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The Moon on Sunday, May 18, 2008: Waxing Gibbous, 98% lit

Waxing · 97.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 10°

Moon age

13.0days

Moon phase on May 18, 2008Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 18 May 2008404,914 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 18, 2008, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 97.5% of its visible face lit, 13.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

97.5%Illumination at noon UTC
13.0 dMoon age
404,914 km251,602 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (10°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 18, 2008 is on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 at 02:12 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, May 5, 2008 at 12:18 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, May 12, 200803:47
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, May 20, 200802:12

The Moon around May 18

More about this date

Sunday, May 18, 2008 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 5, 2008 to the new moon of June 3, 2008, a cycle of 29.29 days.