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The Moon on Friday, July 26, 1957: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 23°

Moon age

28.6days

Moon phase on July 26, 1957Waning Crescent

Friday 26 July 1957362,674 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, July 26, 1957, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.9% of its visible face lit, 28.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.9%Illumination at noon UTC
28.6 dMoon age
362,674 km225,355 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (24°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 26, 1957 is on Thursday, July 11, 1957 at 22:50 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, July 27, 1957 at 04:28 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, July 20, 195702:18
New Moon (after)Saturday, July 27, 195704:28

The Moon around July 26

More about this date

Friday, July 26, 1957 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 27, 1957 to the new moon of July 27, 1957, a cycle of 29.32 days.