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The Moon on Wednesday, June 17, 1959: Waxing Gibbous, 84% lit

Waxing · 84.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 08°

Moon age

11.0days

Moon phase on June 17, 1959Waxing Gibbous

Wednesday 17 June 1959362,976 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, June 17, 1959, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 84.3% of its visible face lit, 11.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

84.3%Illumination at noon UTC
11.0 dMoon age
362,976 km225,543 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (9°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 17, 1959 is on Saturday, June 20, 1959 at 20:00 UTC, 3 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, June 6, 1959 at 11:54 UTC, 11 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, June 14, 195905:23
Full Moon (after)Saturday, June 20, 195920:00

The Moon around June 17

More about this date

Wednesday, June 17, 1959 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 6, 1959 to the new moon of July 6, 1959, a cycle of 29.59 days.