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The Moon on Wednesday, July 19, 1944: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.6% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 18°

Moon age

28.8days

Moon phase on July 19, 1944Waning Crescent

Wednesday 19 July 1944395,069 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, July 19, 1944, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.6% of its visible face lit, 28.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.6%Illumination at noon UTC
28.8 dMoon age
395,069 km245,485 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (18°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 19, 1944 is on Thursday, July 6, 1944 at 04:27 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, July 20, 1944 at 05:43 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, July 12, 194420:39
New Moon (after)Thursday, July 20, 194405:43

The Moon around July 19

More about this date

Wednesday, July 19, 1944 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 20, 1944 to the new moon of July 20, 1944, a cycle of 29.53 days.