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The Moon on Monday, August 11, 2008: Waxing Gibbous, 74% lit

Waxing · 74.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 18°

Moon age

10.1days

Moon phase on August 11, 2008Waxing Gibbous

Monday 11 August 2008404,292 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, August 11, 2008, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 74.3% of its visible face lit, 10.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

74.3%Illumination at noon UTC
10.1 dMoon age
404,292 km251,216 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (18°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 11, 2008 is on Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 21:17 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 1, 2008 at 10:13 UTC, 10 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 11

More about this date

Monday, August 11, 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.