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The Moon on Friday, July 26, 1974: First Quarter, 54% lit

Waxing · 53.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 07°

First Quarter at

03:51UTC

Moon phase on July 26, 1974First Quarter

Friday 26 July 1974385,430 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, July 26, 1974, the Moon was a First Quarter: 53.7% of its visible face lit, 7.0 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

53.7%Illumination at noon UTC
7.0 dMoon age
385,430 km239,495 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (7°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 26, 1974 is on Saturday, August 3, 1974 at 03:57 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, July 19, 1974 at 12:06 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, July 19, 197412:06
First Quarter (this day)Friday, July 26, 197403:51
Full Moon (after)Saturday, August 3, 197403:57

The Moon around July 26

More about this date

Friday, July 26, 1974 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 19, 1974 to the new moon of August 17, 1974, a cycle of 29.29 days.