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The Moon on Wednesday, August 11, 2010: Waxing Crescent, 3% lit

Waxing · 3.0% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 08°

Moon age

1.4days

Moon phase on August 11, 2010Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 11 August 2010358,381 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 11, 2010, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 3.0% of its visible face lit, 1.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

3.0%Illumination at noon UTC
1.4 dMoon age
358,381 km222,688 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (8°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 11, 2010 is on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 17:05 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 03:08 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, August 10, 201003:08
First Quarter (after)Monday, August 16, 201018:14

The Moon around August 11

More about this date

Wednesday, August 11, 2010 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 10, 2010 to the new moon of September 8, 2010, a cycle of 29.31 days.