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Moon Phase for Wednesday August 16, 2006
Last Quarter — 50% Illuminated
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Sunday Aug 13, 2006 
68% — Waning Gibbous |
Monday Aug 14, 2006 
60% — Waning Gibbous |
Tuesday Aug 15, 2006
60% — Waning Gibbous |
Thursday Aug 17, 2006 
42% — Waning Crescent |
Friday Aug 18, 2006 
34% — Waning Crescent |
Saturday Aug 19, 2006 
26% — Waning Crescent |
Last Quarter Phase
The Last Quarter phase is sometimes called a Last Quarter Moon. This phase occurs roughly 3 weeks after the New Moon when the Moon is three quarter of the way through it's orbit around the earth. If you live in the northern hemisphere the Moons left side will be illuminated and the right side will be dark.
For those of you in the southern hemisphere it will be the opposite with the right side illuminated. On the day of the Third Quarter phase the Moon will rise around midnight on the eastern horizon and set in the west around noon the next day.
In the days following the Third Quarter Phase the Moon's illumination will decrees each day until the New Moon.