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The Moon on Sunday, August 15, 2010: Waxing Crescent, 36% lit

Waxing · 36.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 06°

Moon age

5.4days

Moon phase on August 15, 2010Waxing Crescent

Sunday 15 August 2010374,723 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 15, 2010, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 36.5% of its visible face lit, 5.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

36.5%Illumination at noon UTC
5.4 dMoon age
374,723 km232,842 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (7°)
31.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 15, 2010 is on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 17:05 UTC, 9 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 03:08 UTC, 5 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 15

More about this date

Sunday, August 15, 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.