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The Moon on Sunday, July 21, 1912: First Quarter, 53% lit

Waxing · 53.1% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 01°

First Quarter at

05:18UTC

Moon phase on July 21, 1912First Quarter

Sunday 21 July 1912384,823 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, July 21, 1912, the Moon was a First Quarter: 53.1% of its visible face lit, 6.9 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

53.1%Illumination at noon UTC
6.9 dMoon age
384,823 km239,118 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (2°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 21, 1912 is on Monday, July 29, 1912 at 04:28 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, July 14, 1912 at 13:13 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, July 14, 191213:13
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, July 21, 191205:18
Full Moon (after)Monday, July 29, 191204:28

The Moon around July 21

More about this date

Sunday, July 21, 1912 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 14, 1912 to the new moon of August 12, 1912, a cycle of 29.28 days.