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The Moon on Monday, July 18, 1983: Waxing Gibbous, 65% lit

Waxing · 64.6% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 12°

Moon age

8.0days

Moon phase on July 18, 1983Waxing Gibbous

Monday 18 July 1983386,712 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, July 18, 1983, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 64.6% of its visible face lit, 8.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

64.6%Illumination at noon UTC
8.0 dMoon age
386,712 km240,292 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (12°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 18, 1983 is on Sunday, July 24, 1983 at 23:27 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, July 10, 1983 at 12:19 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, July 17, 198302:51
Full Moon (after)Sunday, July 24, 198323:27

The Moon around July 18

More about this date

Monday, July 18, 1983 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 10, 1983 to the new moon of August 8, 1983, a cycle of 29.29 days.