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The Moon on Thursday, June 18, 1959: Waxing Gibbous, 92% lit

Waxing · 91.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 23°

Moon age

12.0days

Moon phase on June 18, 1959Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 18 June 1959360,520 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, June 18, 1959, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 91.9% of its visible face lit, 12.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

91.9%Illumination at noon UTC
12.0 dMoon age
360,520 km224,017 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (24°)
33.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 18, 1959 is on Saturday, June 20, 1959 at 20:00 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, June 6, 1959 at 11:54 UTC, 12 days earlier.

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

The Moon around June 18

More about this date

Thursday, June 18, 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.