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The Moon on Friday, August 27, 2010: Waning Gibbous, 93% lit

Waning · 93.0% lit · ♈︎ Aries 04°

Moon age

17.4days

Moon phase on August 27, 2010Waning Gibbous

Friday 27 August 2010404,584 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 27, 2010, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 93.0% of its visible face lit, 17.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

93.0%Illumination at noon UTC
17.4 dMoon age
404,584 km251,397 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (5°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 27, 2010 is on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 17:05 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 10:30 UTC, 12 days later.

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

The Moon around August 27

More about this date

Friday, August 27, 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.