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The Moon on Sunday, July 23, 1944: Waxing Crescent, 10% lit

Waxing · 9.8% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 06°

Moon age

3.3days

Moon phase on July 23, 1944Waxing Crescent

Sunday 23 July 1944404,696 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, July 23, 1944, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 9.8% of its visible face lit, 3.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

9.8%Illumination at noon UTC
3.3 dMoon age
404,696 km251,466 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (7°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 23, 1944 is on Friday, August 4, 1944 at 12:39 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, July 20, 1944 at 05:43 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, July 20, 194405:43
First Quarter (after)Friday, July 28, 194409:24

The Moon around July 23

More about this date

Sunday, July 23, 1944 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 20, 1944 to the new moon of August 18, 1944, a cycle of 29.61 days.