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The Moon on Sunday, June 26, 1955: Waxing Crescent, 44% lit

Waxing · 44.3% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 27°

Moon age

6.3days

Moon phase on June 26, 1955Waxing Crescent

Sunday 26 June 1955389,060 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, June 26, 1955, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 44.3% of its visible face lit, 6.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

44.3%Illumination at noon UTC
6.3 dMoon age
389,060 km241,751 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (27°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 26, 1955 is on Tuesday, July 5, 1955 at 05:29 UTC, 9 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, June 20, 1955 at 04:12 UTC, 6 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, June 20, 195504:12
First Quarter (after)Monday, June 27, 195501:44

The Moon around June 26

More about this date

Sunday, June 26, 1955 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 20, 1955 to the new moon of July 19, 1955, a cycle of 29.31 days.