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The Moon on Sunday, August 22, 2010: Waxing Gibbous, 96% lit

Waxing · 95.6% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 05°

Moon age

12.4days

Moon phase on August 22, 2010Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 22 August 2010403,870 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 22, 2010, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 95.6% of its visible face lit, 12.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

95.6%Illumination at noon UTC
12.4 dMoon age
403,870 km250,953 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (5°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 22, 2010 is on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 17:05 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 03:08 UTC, 12 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 22

More about this date

Sunday, August 22, 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.