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The Moon on Tuesday, August 23, 2072: Waxing Gibbous, 77% lit

Waxing · 77.2% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 04°

Moon age

9.4days

Moon phase on August 23, 2072Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 23 August 2072395,811 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, August 23, 2072, the Moon will be a Waxing Gibbous: 77.2% of its visible face lit, 9.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

77.2%Illumination at noon UTC
9.4 dMoon age
395,811 km245,946 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (4°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 23, 2072 is on Sunday, August 28, 2072 at 15:59 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 14, 2072 at 01:21 UTC, 9 days earlier.

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

The Moon around August 23

More about this date

Tuesday, August 23, 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.