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The Moon on Sunday, August 10, 2008: Waxing Gibbous, 66% lit

Waxing · 65.6% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 06°

Moon age

9.1days

Moon phase on August 10, 2008Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 10 August 2008404,473 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 10, 2008, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 65.6% of its visible face lit, 9.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

65.6%Illumination at noon UTC
9.1 dMoon age
404,473 km251,328 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (6°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 10, 2008 is on Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 21:17 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 1, 2008 at 10:13 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Friday, August 8, 200820:20
Full Moon (after)Saturday, August 16, 200821:17

The Moon around August 10

More about this date

Sunday, August 10, 2008 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 1, 2008 to the new moon of August 30, 2008, a cycle of 29.41 days.