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The Moon on Tuesday, July 28, 1953: Waning Gibbous, 94% lit

Waning · 94.4% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 02°

Moon age

17.4days

Moon phase on July 28, 1953Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 28 July 1953362,394 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, July 28, 1953, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 94.4% of its visible face lit, 17.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

94.4%Illumination at noon UTC
17.4 dMoon age
362,394 km225,181 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (2°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 28, 1953 is on Sunday, July 26, 1953 at 12:21 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, August 9, 1953 at 16:10 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, July 26, 195312:21
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, August 2, 195303:16

The Moon around July 28

More about this date

Tuesday, July 28, 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.