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The Moon on Friday, August 20, 2010: Waxing Gibbous, 85% lit

Waxing · 84.6% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 11°

Moon age

10.4days

Moon phase on August 20, 2010Waxing Gibbous

Friday 20 August 2010398,780 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 20, 2010, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 84.6% of its visible face lit, 10.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

84.6%Illumination at noon UTC
10.4 dMoon age
398,780 km247,790 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (11°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 20, 2010 is on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 17:05 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 03:08 UTC, 10 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 20

More about this date

Friday, August 20, 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.