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The Moon on Tuesday, July 26, 1955: First Quarter, 48% lit

Waxing · 48.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 00°

First Quarter at

16:00UTC

Moon phase on July 26, 1955First Quarter

Tuesday 26 July 1955398,190 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, July 26, 1955, the Moon was a First Quarter: 48.5% of its visible face lit, 7.0 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

48.5%Illumination at noon UTC
7.0 dMoon age
398,190 km247,423 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (1°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 26, 1955 is on Wednesday, August 3, 1955 at 19:30 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, July 19, 1955 at 11:35 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, July 19, 195511:35
First Quarter (this day)Tuesday, July 26, 195516:00
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, August 3, 195519:30

The Moon around July 26

More about this date

Tuesday, July 26, 1955 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 19, 1955 to the new moon of August 17, 1955, a cycle of 29.35 days.