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The Moon on Tuesday, July 27, 1982: First Quarter, 47% lit

Waxing · 47.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 01°

First Quarter at

18:22UTC

Moon phase on July 27, 1982First Quarter

Tuesday 27 July 1982393,061 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, July 27, 1982, the Moon was a First Quarter: 47.5% of its visible face lit, 6.7 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

47.5%Illumination at noon UTC
6.7 dMoon age
393,061 km244,236 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (1°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 27, 1982 is on Wednesday, August 4, 1982 at 22:34 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, July 20, 1982 at 18:57 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, July 20, 198218:57
First Quarter (this day)Tuesday, July 27, 198218:22
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, August 4, 198222:34

The Moon around July 27

More about this date

Tuesday, July 27, 1982 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 20, 1982 to the new moon of August 19, 1982, a cycle of 29.33 days.