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The Moon on Wednesday, July 1, 1970: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 4.7% lit · ♊︎ Gemini 14°

Moon age

27.4days

Moon phase on July 1, 1970Waning Crescent

Wednesday 1 July 1970393,471 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, July 1, 1970, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.7% of its visible face lit, 27.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.7%Illumination at noon UTC
27.4 dMoon age
393,471 km244,491 mi from Earth
♊︎ GeminiMoon sign (15°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 1, 1970 is on Friday, June 19, 1970 at 12:27 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, July 3, 1970 at 15:18 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, June 26, 197004:01
New Moon (after)Friday, July 3, 197015:18

The Moon around July 1

More about this date

Wednesday, July 1, 1970 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 4, 1970 to the new moon of July 3, 1970, a cycle of 29.54 days.