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The Moon on Friday, May 8, 2009: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 10°

Moon age

13.4days

Moon phase on May 8, 2009Waxing Gibbous

Friday 8 May 2009392,836 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, May 8, 2009, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.4% of its visible face lit, 13.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.4%Illumination at noon UTC
13.4 dMoon age
392,836 km244,097 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (10°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 8, 2009 is on Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 04:02 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 03:23 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Friday, May 1, 200920:44
Full Moon (after)Saturday, May 9, 200904:02

The Moon around May 8

More about this date

Friday, May 8, 2009 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 25, 2009 to the new moon of May 24, 2009, a cycle of 29.37 days.