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The Moon on Saturday, July 11, 1953: New Moon, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.2% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 23°

New Moon at

02:28UTC

Moon phase on July 11, 1953New Moon

Saturday 11 July 1953393,505 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, July 11, 1953, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.2% of its visible face lit, 29.9 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.2%Illumination at noon UTC
29.9 dMoon age
393,505 km244,512 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (24°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 11, 1953 is on Saturday, June 27, 1953 at 03:29 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, July 11, 1953 at 02:28 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, July 3, 195322:03
New Moon (this day)Saturday, July 11, 195302:28
First Quarter (after)Sunday, July 19, 195304:47

The Moon around July 11

More about this date

Saturday, July 11, 1953 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 11, 1953 to the new moon of August 9, 1953, a cycle of 29.57 days.