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The Moon on Sunday, June 23, 1963: Waxing Crescent, 5% lit

Waxing · 5.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 27°

Moon age

2.0days

Moon phase on June 23, 1963Waxing Crescent

Sunday 23 June 1963374,981 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, June 23, 1963, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 5.3% of its visible face lit, 2.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

5.3%Illumination at noon UTC
2.0 dMoon age
374,981 km233,002 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (28°)
31.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 23, 1963 is on Saturday, July 6, 1963 at 21:56 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, June 21, 1963 at 11:46 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, June 21, 196311:46
First Quarter (after)Friday, June 28, 196320:24

The Moon around June 23

More about this date

Sunday, June 23, 1963 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 21, 1963 to the new moon of July 20, 1963, a cycle of 29.37 days.