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The Moon on Friday, July 22, 1988: First Quarter, 54% lit

Waxing · 54.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 04°

First Quarter at

02:14UTC

Moon phase on July 22, 1988First Quarter

Friday 22 July 1988394,453 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, July 22, 1988, the Moon was a First Quarter: 54.2% of its visible face lit, 8.6 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

54.2%Illumination at noon UTC
8.6 dMoon age
394,453 km245,102 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (5°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 22, 1988 is on Friday, July 29, 1988 at 03:25 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, July 13, 1988 at 21:53 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Wednesday, July 13, 198821:53
First Quarter (this day)Friday, July 22, 198802:14
Full Moon (after)Friday, July 29, 198803:25

The Moon around July 22

More about this date

Friday, July 22, 1988 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 13, 1988 to the new moon of August 12, 1988, a cycle of 29.61 days.