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The Moon on Tuesday, September 21, 2010: Waxing Gibbous, 97% lit

Waxing · 96.7% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 07°

Moon age

13.1days

Moon phase on September 21, 2010Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 21 September 2010406,143 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 21, 2010, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 96.7% of its visible face lit, 13.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

96.7%Illumination at noon UTC
13.1 dMoon age
406,143 km252,366 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (8°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 21, 2010 is on Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 09:17 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 10:30 UTC, 13 days earlier.

The Moon around September 21

More about this date

Tuesday, September 21, 2010 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 8, 2010 to the new moon of October 7, 2010, a cycle of 29.34 days.