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The Moon on Thursday, July 28, 1955: Waxing Gibbous, 67% lit

Waxing · 67.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 24°

Moon age

9.0days

Moon phase on July 28, 1955Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 28 July 1955403,804 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, July 28, 1955, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 67.4% of its visible face lit, 9.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

67.4%Illumination at noon UTC
9.0 dMoon age
403,804 km250,912 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (25°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 28, 1955 is on Wednesday, August 3, 1955 at 19:30 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, July 19, 1955 at 11:35 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, July 26, 195516:00
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, August 3, 195519:30

The Moon around July 28

More about this date

Thursday, July 28, 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.