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The Moon on Sunday, August 21, 2072: Waxing Gibbous, 58% lit

Waxing · 58.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 08°

Moon age

7.4days

Moon phase on August 21, 2072Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 21 August 2072386,618 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, August 21, 2072, the Moon will be a Waxing Gibbous: 58.3% of its visible face lit, 7.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

58.3%Illumination at noon UTC
7.4 dMoon age
386,618 km240,233 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (9°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 21, 2072 is on Sunday, August 28, 2072 at 15:59 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 14, 2072 at 01:21 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, August 20, 207217:21
Full Moon (after)Sunday, August 28, 207215:59

The Moon around August 21

More about this date

Sunday, August 21, 2072 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 14, 2072 to the new moon of September 12, 2072, a cycle of 29.32 days.