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The Moon on Sunday, August 17, 2008: Waning Gibbous, 100% lit

Waning · 99.6% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 02°

Moon age

16.1days

Moon phase on August 17, 2008Waning Gibbous

Sunday 17 August 2008386,895 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 17, 2008, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.6% of its visible face lit, 16.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.6%Illumination at noon UTC
16.1 dMoon age
386,895 km240,405 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (2°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 17, 2008 is on Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 21:17 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 30, 2008 at 19:58 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, August 16, 200821:17
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, August 23, 200823:50

The Moon around August 17

More about this date

Sunday, August 17, 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.