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The Moon on Wednesday, July 18, 1917: Waning Crescent, 0% lit

Waning · 0.4% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 18°

Moon age

29.0days

Moon phase on July 18, 1917Waning Crescent

Wednesday 18 July 1917401,054 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, July 18, 1917, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.4% of its visible face lit, 29.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.4%Illumination at noon UTC
29.0 dMoon age
401,054 km249,203 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (18°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 18, 1917 is on Wednesday, July 4, 1917 at 21:40 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, July 19, 1917 at 03:00 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, July 11, 191712:12
New Moon (after)Thursday, July 19, 191703:00

The Moon around July 18

More about this date

Wednesday, July 18, 1917 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 19, 1917 to the new moon of July 19, 1917, a cycle of 29.58 days.