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The Moon on Sunday, July 19, 1953: First Quarter, 53% lit

Waxing · 53.0% lit · ♎︎ Libra 29°

First Quarter at

04:47UTC

Moon phase on July 19, 1953First Quarter

Sunday 19 July 1953399,870 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, July 19, 1953, the Moon was a First Quarter: 53.0% of its visible face lit, 8.4 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

53.0%Illumination at noon UTC
8.4 dMoon age
399,870 km248,468 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (30°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 19, 1953 is on Sunday, July 26, 1953 at 12:21 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, July 11, 1953 at 02:28 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, July 11, 195302:28
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, July 19, 195304:47
Full Moon (after)Sunday, July 26, 195312:21

The Moon around July 19

More about this date

Sunday, July 19, 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.