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The Moon on Tuesday, August 16, 2011: Waning Gibbous, 93% lit

Waning · 92.9% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 23°

Moon age

16.7days

Moon phase on August 16, 2011Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 16 August 2011402,813 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 16, 2011, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 92.9% of its visible face lit, 16.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

92.9%Illumination at noon UTC
16.7 dMoon age
402,813 km250,296 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (24°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 16, 2011 is on Saturday, August 13, 2011 at 18:58 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, August 29, 2011 at 03:04 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, August 13, 201118:58
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, August 21, 201121:55

The Moon around August 16

More about this date

Tuesday, August 16, 2011 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 30, 2011 to the new moon of August 29, 2011, a cycle of 29.35 days.