Skip to content
The Moon on Thursday, July 6, 1950: Waning Gibbous, 56% lit

Waning · 56.1% lit · ♈︎ Aries 06°

Moon age

20.8days

Moon phase on July 6, 1950Waning Gibbous

Thursday 6 July 1950398,079 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, July 6, 1950, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 56.1% of its visible face lit, 20.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

56.1%Illumination at noon UTC
20.8 dMoon age
398,079 km247,355 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (7°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 6, 1950 is on Thursday, June 29, 1950 at 19:58 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, July 15, 1950 at 05:06 UTC, 9 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, June 29, 195019:58
Last Quarter (after)Friday, July 7, 195002:54

The Moon around July 6

More about this date

Thursday, July 6, 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.