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The Moon on Wednesday, July 23, 1941: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 20°

Moon age

28.7days

Moon phase on July 23, 1941Waning Crescent

Wednesday 23 July 1941390,492 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, July 23, 1941, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.9% of its visible face lit, 28.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.9%Illumination at noon UTC
28.7 dMoon age
390,492 km242,641 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (20°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 23, 1941 is on Tuesday, July 8, 1941 at 20:17 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, July 24, 1941 at 07:39 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, July 16, 194108:08
New Moon (after)Thursday, July 24, 194107:39

The Moon around July 23

More about this date

Wednesday, July 23, 1941 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 24, 1941 to the new moon of July 24, 1941, a cycle of 29.51 days.