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The Moon on Wednesday, August 18, 2010: Waxing Gibbous, 68% lit

Waxing · 67.9% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 16°

Moon age

8.4days

Moon phase on August 18, 2010Waxing Gibbous

Wednesday 18 August 2010390,783 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 18, 2010, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 67.9% of its visible face lit, 8.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

67.9%Illumination at noon UTC
8.4 dMoon age
390,783 km242,821 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (16°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 18, 2010 is on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 17:05 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 03:08 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, August 16, 201018:14
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, August 24, 201017:05

The Moon around August 18

More about this date

Wednesday, August 18, 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.