Skip to content
The Moon on Saturday, August 28, 2010: Waning Gibbous, 87% lit

Waning · 87.4% lit · ♈︎ Aries 16°

Moon age

18.4days

Moon phase on August 28, 2010Waning Gibbous

Saturday 28 August 2010402,547 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, August 28, 2010, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 87.4% of its visible face lit, 18.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

87.4%Illumination at noon UTC
18.4 dMoon age
402,547 km250,131 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (17°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 28, 2010 is on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 17:05 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 10:30 UTC, 11 days later.

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

The Moon around August 28

More about this date

Saturday, August 28, 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.