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The Moon on Tuesday, July 30, 1963: Waxing Gibbous, 68% lit

Waxing · 68.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 27°

Moon age

9.6days

Moon phase on July 30, 1963Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 30 July 1963402,751 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, July 30, 1963, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 68.2% of its visible face lit, 9.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

68.2%Illumination at noon UTC
9.6 dMoon age
402,751 km250,258 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (28°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 30, 1963 is on Monday, August 5, 1963 at 09:31 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, July 20, 1963 at 20:43 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, July 28, 196313:13
Full Moon (after)Monday, August 5, 196309:31

The Moon around July 30

More about this date

Tuesday, July 30, 1963 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 20, 1963 to the new moon of August 19, 1963, a cycle of 29.45 days.