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The Moon on Sunday, June 18, 1939: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 1.4% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 09°

Moon age

0.9days

Moon phase on June 18, 1939Waxing Crescent

Sunday 18 June 1939364,593 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, June 18, 1939, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 1.4% of its visible face lit, 0.9 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.4%Illumination at noon UTC
0.9 dMoon age
364,593 km226,548 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (9°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 18, 1939 is on Saturday, July 1, 1939 at 16:16 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, June 17, 1939 at 13:37 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, June 17, 193913:37
First Quarter (after)Saturday, June 24, 193904:35

The Moon around June 18

More about this date

Sunday, June 18, 1939 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 17, 1939 to the new moon of July 16, 1939, a cycle of 29.31 days.