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The Moon on Tuesday, July 31, 1951: Waning Crescent, 6% lit

Waning · 5.6% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 10°

Moon age

27.2days

Moon phase on July 31, 1951Waning Crescent

Tuesday 31 July 1951405,486 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, July 31, 1951, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.6% of its visible face lit, 27.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.6%Illumination at noon UTC
27.2 dMoon age
405,486 km251,957 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (11°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 31, 1951 is on Wednesday, July 18, 1951 at 19:17 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, August 2, 1951 at 22:39 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, July 25, 195118:59
New Moon (after)Thursday, August 2, 195122:39

The Moon around July 31

More about this date

Tuesday, July 31, 1951 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 4, 1951 to the new moon of August 2, 1951, a cycle of 29.62 days.