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The Moon on Sunday, August 28, 2016: Waning Crescent, 16% lit

Waning · 16.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 18°

Moon age

25.6days

Moon phase on August 28, 2016Waning Crescent

Sunday 28 August 2016379,757 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 28, 2016, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 16.0% of its visible face lit, 25.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

16.0%Illumination at noon UTC
25.6 dMoon age
379,757 km235,970 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (19°)
31.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 28, 2016 is on Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 09:27 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 09:03 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, August 25, 201603:41
New Moon (after)Thursday, September 1, 201609:03

The Moon around August 28

More about this date

Sunday, August 28, 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.