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The Moon on Friday, August 16, 2019: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.0% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 04°

Moon age

15.4days

Moon phase on August 16, 2019Waning Gibbous

Friday 16 August 2019405,904 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 16, 2019, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.0% of its visible face lit, 15.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.0%Illumination at noon UTC
15.4 dMoon age
405,904 km252,217 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (4°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 16, 2019 is on Thursday, August 15, 2019 at 12:29 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, August 30, 2019 at 10:37 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, August 15, 201912:29
Last Quarter (after)Friday, August 23, 201914:56

The Moon around August 16

More about this date

Friday, August 16, 2019 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 1, 2019 to the new moon of August 30, 2019, a cycle of 29.31 days.