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The Moon on Friday, August 12, 2016: Waxing Gibbous, 66% lit

Waxing · 66.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 09°

Moon age

9.6days

Moon phase on August 12, 2016Waxing Gibbous

Friday 12 August 2016400,316 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 12, 2016, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 66.4% of its visible face lit, 9.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

66.4%Illumination at noon UTC
9.6 dMoon age
400,316 km248,745 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (9°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 12, 2016 is on Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 09:27 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at 20:45 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Wednesday, August 10, 201618:21
Full Moon (after)Thursday, August 18, 201609:27

The Moon around August 12

More about this date

Friday, August 12, 2016 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 2, 2016 to the new moon of September 1, 2016, a cycle of 29.51 days.