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The Moon on Friday, July 18, 1975: Waxing Gibbous, 78% lit

Waxing · 78.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 29°

Moon age

9.3days

Moon phase on July 18, 1975Waxing Gibbous

Friday 18 July 1975381,505 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, July 18, 1975, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 78.0% of its visible face lit, 9.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

78.0%Illumination at noon UTC
9.3 dMoon age
381,505 km237,056 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (29°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 18, 1975 is on Wednesday, July 23, 1975 at 05:29 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, July 9, 1975 at 04:10 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, July 15, 197519:47
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, July 23, 197505:29

The Moon around July 18

More about this date

Friday, July 18, 1975 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 9, 1975 to the new moon of August 7, 1975, a cycle of 29.32 days.