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The Moon on Tuesday, July 26, 1938: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 23°

Moon age

28.6days

Moon phase on July 26, 1938Waning Crescent

Tuesday 26 July 1938358,103 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, July 26, 1938, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.8% of its visible face lit, 28.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.8%Illumination at noon UTC
28.6 dMoon age
358,103 km222,515 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (23°)
33.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 26, 1938 is on Tuesday, July 12, 1938 at 15:05 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, July 27, 1938 at 03:54 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, July 20, 193812:19
New Moon (after)Wednesday, July 27, 193803:54

The Moon around July 26

More about this date

Tuesday, July 26, 1938 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 27, 1938 to the new moon of July 27, 1938, a cycle of 29.28 days.