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The Moon on Tuesday, July 11, 1972: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 0.6% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 28°

Moon age

0.7days

Moon phase on July 11, 1972Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 11 July 1972372,898 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, July 11, 1972, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.6% of its visible face lit, 0.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.6%Illumination at noon UTC
0.7 dMoon age
372,898 km231,708 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (28°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 11, 1972 is on Monday, June 26, 1972 at 18:46 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, July 10, 1972 at 19:39 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, July 10, 197219:39
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, July 18, 197207:46

The Moon around July 11

More about this date

Tuesday, July 11, 1972 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 10, 1972 to the new moon of August 9, 1972, a cycle of 29.41 days.