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The Moon on Tuesday, July 9, 1940: Waxing Crescent, 20% lit

Waxing · 20.2% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 10°

Moon age

4.0days

Moon phase on July 9, 1940Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 9 July 1940368,207 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, July 9, 1940, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 20.2% of its visible face lit, 4.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

20.2%Illumination at noon UTC
4.0 dMoon age
368,207 km228,793 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (10°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 9, 1940 is on Friday, July 19, 1940 at 09:55 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, July 5, 1940 at 11:28 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, July 5, 194011:28
First Quarter (after)Friday, July 12, 194006:35

The Moon around July 9

More about this date

Tuesday, July 9, 1940 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 5, 1940 to the new moon of August 3, 1940, a cycle of 29.36 days.