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The Moon on Tuesday, August 25, 2009: Waxing Crescent, 30% lit

Waxing · 30.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 09°

Moon age

5.1days

Moon phase on August 25, 2009Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 25 August 2009386,153 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 25, 2009, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 30.5% of its visible face lit, 5.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

30.5%Illumination at noon UTC
5.1 dMoon age
386,153 km239,944 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (9°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 25, 2009 is on Friday, September 4, 2009 at 16:03 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 10:02 UTC, 5 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, August 20, 200910:02
First Quarter (after)Thursday, August 27, 200911:42

The Moon around August 25

More about this date

Tuesday, August 25, 2009 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 20, 2009 to the new moon of September 18, 2009, a cycle of 29.36 days.