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The Moon on Sunday, July 22, 1979: Waning Crescent, 2% lit

Waning · 2.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 11°

Moon age

28.0days

Moon phase on July 22, 1979Waning Crescent

Sunday 22 July 1979399,027 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, July 22, 1979, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 2.5% of its visible face lit, 28.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

2.5%Illumination at noon UTC
28.0 dMoon age
399,027 km247,944 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (12°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 22, 1979 is on Monday, July 9, 1979 at 19:59 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, July 24, 1979 at 01:41 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, July 16, 197910:59
New Moon (after)Tuesday, July 24, 197901:41

The Moon around July 22

More about this date

Sunday, July 22, 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.