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The Moon on Sunday, June 21, 1942: First Quarter, 46% lit

Waxing · 46.3% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 25°

First Quarter at

20:45UTC

Moon phase on June 21, 1942First Quarter

Sunday 21 June 1942385,048 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, June 21, 1942, the Moon was a First Quarter: 46.3% of its visible face lit, 7.6 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

46.3%Illumination at noon UTC
7.6 dMoon age
385,048 km239,258 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (25°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 21, 1942 is on Sunday, June 28, 1942 at 12:09 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, June 13, 1942 at 21:02 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, June 13, 194221:02
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, June 21, 194220:45
Full Moon (after)Sunday, June 28, 194212:09

The Moon around June 21

More about this date

Sunday, June 21, 1942 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 13, 1942 to the new moon of July 13, 1942, a cycle of 29.63 days.