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The Moon on Wednesday, August 31, 2072: Waning Gibbous, 93% lit

Waning · 93.0% lit · ♈︎ Aries 09°

Moon age

17.4days

Moon phase on August 31, 2072Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 31 August 2072404,148 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 31, 2072, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 93.0% of its visible face lit, 17.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

93.0%Illumination at noon UTC
17.4 dMoon age
404,148 km251,126 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (10°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 31, 2072 is on Sunday, August 28, 2072 at 15:59 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, September 12, 2072 at 09:07 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, August 28, 207215:59
Last Quarter (after)Monday, September 5, 207216:19

The Moon around August 31

More about this date

Wednesday, August 31, 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.