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The Moon on Thursday, August 26, 2010: Waning Gibbous, 97% lit

Waning · 97.0% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 22°

Moon age

16.4days

Moon phase on August 26, 2010Waning Gibbous

Thursday 26 August 2010405,835 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, August 26, 2010, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 97.0% of its visible face lit, 16.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

97.0%Illumination at noon UTC
16.4 dMoon age
405,835 km252,174 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (23°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 26, 2010 is on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 17:05 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 10:30 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, August 24, 201017:05
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, September 1, 201017:22

The Moon around August 26

More about this date

Thursday, August 26, 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.