Skip to content
The Moon on Wednesday, June 23, 1971: Waxing Crescent, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 08°

Moon age

30.0days

Moon phase on June 23, 1971Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 23 June 1971382,592 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, June 23, 1971, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.5% of its visible face lit, 30.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.5%Illumination at noon UTC
30.0 dMoon age
382,592 km237,732 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (9°)
31.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 23, 1971 is on Wednesday, June 9, 1971 at 00:04 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, June 22, 1971 at 21:57 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, June 22, 197121:57
First Quarter (after)Wednesday, June 30, 197118:11

The Moon around June 23

More about this date

Wednesday, June 23, 1971 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 22, 1971 to the new moon of July 22, 1971, a cycle of 29.47 days.