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The Moon on Sunday, June 18, 1950: Waxing Crescent, 8% lit

Waxing · 8.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 29°

Moon age

2.8days

Moon phase on June 18, 1950Waxing Crescent

Sunday 18 June 1950393,192 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, June 18, 1950, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 8.0% of its visible face lit, 2.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

8.0%Illumination at noon UTC
2.8 dMoon age
393,192 km244,318 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (29°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 18, 1950 is on Thursday, June 29, 1950 at 19:58 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, June 15, 1950 at 15:53 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, June 15, 195015:53
First Quarter (after)Friday, June 23, 195005:13

The Moon around June 18

More about this date

Sunday, June 18, 1950 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 15, 1950 to the new moon of July 15, 1950, a cycle of 29.55 days.