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The Moon on Thursday, August 27, 2009: First Quarter, 50% lit

Waxing · 50.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 04°

First Quarter at

11:42UTC

Moon phase on August 27, 2009First Quarter

Thursday 27 August 2009396,610 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 27, 2009, the Moon was a First Quarter: 50.3% of its visible face lit, 7.1 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

50.3%Illumination at noon UTC
7.1 dMoon age
396,610 km246,442 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (4°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 27, 2009 is on Friday, September 4, 2009 at 16:03 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 10:02 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, August 20, 200910:02
First Quarter (this day)Thursday, August 27, 200911:42
Full Moon (after)Friday, September 4, 200916:03

The Moon around August 27

More about this date

Thursday, August 27, 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.