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The Moon on Wednesday, June 26, 1968: Waxing Crescent, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 11°

Moon age

0.6days

Moon phase on June 26, 1968Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 26 June 1968400,990 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, June 26, 1968, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.5% of its visible face lit, 0.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.5%Illumination at noon UTC
0.6 dMoon age
400,990 km249,164 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (11°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 26, 1968 is on Wednesday, July 10, 1968 at 03:18 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, June 25, 1968 at 22:25 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, June 25, 196822:25
First Quarter (after)Wednesday, July 3, 196812:42

The Moon around June 26

More about this date

Wednesday, June 26, 1968 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 25, 1968 to the new moon of July 25, 1968, a cycle of 29.56 days.