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The Moon on Tuesday, June 26, 1979: Waxing Crescent, 4% lit

Waxing · 4.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 27°

Moon age

2.0days

Moon phase on June 26, 1979Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 26 June 1979400,991 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, June 26, 1979, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 4.0% of its visible face lit, 2.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

4.0%Illumination at noon UTC
2.0 dMoon age
400,991 km249,164 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (27°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 26, 1979 is on Monday, July 9, 1979 at 19:59 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, June 24, 1979 at 11:58 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, June 24, 197911:58
First Quarter (after)Monday, July 2, 197915:24

The Moon around June 26

More about this date

Tuesday, June 26, 1979 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 24, 1979 to the new moon of July 24, 1979, a cycle of 29.57 days.