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The Moon on Tuesday, August 27, 2013: Waning Gibbous, 59% lit

Waning · 58.8% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 24°

Moon age

20.6days

Moon phase on August 27, 2013Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 27 August 2013397,482 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 27, 2013, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 58.8% of its visible face lit, 20.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

58.8%Illumination at noon UTC
20.6 dMoon age
397,482 km246,984 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (24°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 27, 2013 is on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 01:45 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 5, 2013 at 11:36 UTC, 9 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, August 21, 201301:45
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, August 28, 201309:35

The Moon around August 27

More about this date

Tuesday, August 27, 2013 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 6, 2013 to the new moon of September 5, 2013, a cycle of 29.57 days.