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The Moon on Tuesday, September 16, 2008: Waning Gibbous, 98% lit

Waning · 98.3% lit · ♈︎ Aries 08°

Moon age

16.7days

Moon phase on September 16, 2008Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 16 September 2008374,295 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 16, 2008, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 98.3% of its visible face lit, 16.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

98.3%Illumination at noon UTC
16.7 dMoon age
374,295 km232,576 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (8°)
31.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 16, 2008 is on Monday, September 15, 2008 at 09:14 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, September 29, 2008 at 08:12 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, September 15, 200809:14
Last Quarter (after)Monday, September 22, 200805:04

The Moon around September 16

More about this date

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 30, 2008 to the new moon of September 29, 2008, a cycle of 29.51 days.