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The Moon on Friday, July 9, 1954: Waxing Gibbous, 64% lit

Waxing · 63.6% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 02°

Moon age

9.0days

Moon phase on July 9, 1954Waxing Gibbous

Friday 9 July 1954404,333 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, July 9, 1954, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 63.6% of its visible face lit, 9.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

63.6%Illumination at noon UTC
9.0 dMoon age
404,333 km251,241 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (2°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 9, 1954 is on Friday, July 16, 1954 at 00:29 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, June 30, 1954 at 12:26 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, July 8, 195401:33
Full Moon (after)Friday, July 16, 195400:29

The Moon around July 9

More about this date

Friday, July 9, 1954 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 30, 1954 to the new moon of July 29, 1954, a cycle of 29.41 days.