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The Moon on Friday, August 28, 2015: Waxing Gibbous, 98% lit

Waxing · 97.5% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 17°

Moon age

13.9days

Moon phase on August 28, 2015Waxing Gibbous

Friday 28 August 2015362,472 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 28, 2015, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 97.5% of its visible face lit, 13.9 days after the new moon and growing each night.

97.5%Illumination at noon UTC
13.9 dMoon age
362,472 km225,229 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (17°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 28, 2015 is on Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 18:35 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 14, 2015 at 14:54 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, August 22, 201519:31
Full Moon (after)Saturday, August 29, 201518:35

The Moon around August 28

More about this date

Friday, August 28, 2015 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 14, 2015 to the new moon of September 13, 2015, a cycle of 29.66 days.