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The Moon on Friday, August 22, 2008: Waning Gibbous, 67% lit

Waning · 66.8% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 10°

Moon age

21.1days

Moon phase on August 22, 2008Waning Gibbous

Friday 22 August 2008372,598 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 22, 2008, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 66.8% of its visible face lit, 21.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

66.8%Illumination at noon UTC
21.1 dMoon age
372,598 km231,521 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (10°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 22, 2008 is on Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 21:17 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, August 30, 2008 at 19:58 UTC, 8 days later.

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

The Moon around August 22

More about this date

Friday, August 22, 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.