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The Moon on Monday, August 9, 2010: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.6% lit · ♌︎ Leo 07°

Moon age

28.7days

Moon phase on August 9, 2010Waning Crescent

Monday 9 August 2010359,327 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, August 9, 2010, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.6% of its visible face lit, 28.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.6%Illumination at noon UTC
28.7 dMoon age
359,327 km223,275 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (8°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 9, 2010 is on Monday, July 26, 2010 at 01:37 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 03:08 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, August 3, 201004:59
New Moon (after)Tuesday, August 10, 201003:08

The Moon around August 9

More about this date

Monday, August 9, 2010 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 11, 2010 to the new moon of August 10, 2010, a cycle of 29.31 days.