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The Moon on Sunday, August 29, 2010: Waning Gibbous, 80% lit

Waning · 80.3% lit · ♈︎ Aries 28°

Moon age

19.4days

Moon phase on August 29, 2010Waning Gibbous

Sunday 29 August 2010399,674 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 29, 2010, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 80.3% of its visible face lit, 19.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

80.3%Illumination at noon UTC
19.4 dMoon age
399,674 km248,346 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (29°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 29, 2010 is on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 17:05 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 10:30 UTC, 10 days later.

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

The Moon around August 29

More about this date

Sunday, August 29, 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.