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The Moon on Tuesday, July 21, 1942: First Quarter, 53% lit

Waxing · 53.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 01°

First Quarter at

05:13UTC

Moon phase on July 21, 1942First Quarter

Tuesday 21 July 1942375,124 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, July 21, 1942, the Moon was a First Quarter: 53.3% of its visible face lit, 8.0 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

53.3%Illumination at noon UTC
8.0 dMoon age
375,124 km233,091 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (2°)
31.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 21, 1942 is on Monday, July 27, 1942 at 19:14 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, July 13, 1942 at 12:03 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, July 13, 194212:03
First Quarter (this day)Tuesday, July 21, 194205:13
Full Moon (after)Monday, July 27, 194219:14

The Moon around July 21

More about this date

Tuesday, July 21, 1942 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 13, 1942 to the new moon of August 12, 1942, a cycle of 29.60 days.