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The Moon on Friday, July 29, 1955: Waxing Gibbous, 76% lit

Waxing · 75.9% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 06°

Moon age

10.0days

Moon phase on July 29, 1955Waxing Gibbous

Friday 29 July 1955404,836 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, July 29, 1955, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 75.9% of its visible face lit, 10.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

75.9%Illumination at noon UTC
10.0 dMoon age
404,836 km251,553 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (7°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 29, 1955 is on Wednesday, August 3, 1955 at 19:30 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, July 19, 1955 at 11:35 UTC, 10 days earlier.

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

The Moon around July 29

More about this date

Friday, July 29, 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.