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The Moon on Friday, August 2, 1957: First Quarter, 47% lit

Waxing · 47.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 06°

First Quarter at

18:55UTC

Moon phase on August 2, 1957First Quarter

Friday 2 August 1957376,330 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, August 2, 1957, the Moon was a First Quarter: 47.0% of its visible face lit, 6.3 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

47.0%Illumination at noon UTC
6.3 dMoon age
376,330 km233,841 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (6°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 2, 1957 is on Saturday, August 10, 1957 at 13:08 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, July 27, 1957 at 04:28 UTC, 6 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, July 27, 195704:28
First Quarter (this day)Friday, August 2, 195718:55
Full Moon (after)Saturday, August 10, 195713:08

The Moon around August 2

More about this date

Friday, August 2, 1957 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 27, 1957 to the new moon of August 25, 1957, a cycle of 29.29 days.