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The Moon on Thursday, September 23, 2010: Full Moon, 100% lit

Waning · 99.8% lit · ♈︎ Aries 01°

Full Moon at

09:17UTC

Moon phase on September 23, 2010Full Moon

Thursday 23 September 2010404,535 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, September 23, 2010, the Moon was a Full Moon: 99.8% of its visible face lit, 15.1 days after the new moon and at its fullest. The exact Full Moon happened at .

99.8%Illumination at noon UTC
15.1 dMoon age
404,535 km251,366 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (2°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
FullWhole disc lit

Full moon

This is the Harvest Moon (also called the Corn Moon), 404,692 km from Earth. Micromoon

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 23, 2010 is on Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 09:17 UTC, the same day, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 18:44 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Wednesday, September 15, 201005:50
Full Moon (this day)Thursday, September 23, 201009:17
Last Quarter (after)Friday, October 1, 201003:52

The Moon around September 23

More about this date

Thursday, September 23, 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.