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The Moon on Sunday, June 15, 2008: Waxing Gibbous, 91% lit

Waxing · 90.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 19°

Moon age

11.7days

Moon phase on June 15, 2008Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 15 June 2008405,607 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, June 15, 2008, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 90.7% of its visible face lit, 11.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

90.7%Illumination at noon UTC
11.7 dMoon age
405,607 km252,032 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (19°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 15, 2008 is on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 17:31 UTC, 3 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 19:23 UTC, 12 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, June 10, 200815:04
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, June 18, 200817:31

The Moon around June 15

More about this date

Sunday, June 15, 2008 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 3, 2008 to the new moon of July 3, 2008, a cycle of 29.29 days.