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The Moon on Saturday, July 28, 1917: Waxing Gibbous, 63% lit

Waxing · 62.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 19°

Moon age

9.4days

Moon phase on July 28, 1917Waxing Gibbous

Saturday 28 July 1917386,210 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, July 28, 1917, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 62.5% of its visible face lit, 9.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

62.5%Illumination at noon UTC
9.4 dMoon age
386,210 km239,980 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (19°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 28, 1917 is on Friday, August 3, 1917 at 05:11 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, July 19, 1917 at 03:00 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Friday, July 27, 191706:40
Full Moon (after)Friday, August 3, 191705:11

The Moon around July 28

More about this date

Saturday, July 28, 1917 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 19, 1917 to the new moon of August 17, 1917, a cycle of 29.64 days.