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The Moon on Tuesday, August 23, 2016: Waning Gibbous, 69% lit

Waning · 68.8% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 08°

Moon age

20.6days

Moon phase on August 23, 2016Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 23 August 2016367,958 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 23, 2016, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 68.8% of its visible face lit, 20.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

68.8%Illumination at noon UTC
20.6 dMoon age
367,958 km228,639 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (9°)
32.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 23, 2016 is on Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 09:27 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 09:03 UTC, 9 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, August 18, 201609:27
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, August 25, 201603:41

The Moon around August 23

More about this date

Tuesday, August 23, 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.