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The Moon on Friday, July 28, 1944: First Quarter, 51% lit

Waxing · 51.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 06°

First Quarter at

09:24UTC

Moon phase on July 28, 1944First Quarter

Friday 28 July 1944397,293 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, July 28, 1944, the Moon was a First Quarter: 51.2% of its visible face lit, 8.3 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

51.2%Illumination at noon UTC
8.3 dMoon age
397,293 km246,867 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (6°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 28, 1944 is on Friday, August 4, 1944 at 12:39 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, July 20, 1944 at 05:43 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, July 20, 194405:43
First Quarter (this day)Friday, July 28, 194409:24
Full Moon (after)Friday, August 4, 194412:39

The Moon around July 28

More about this date

Friday, July 28, 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.