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The Moon on Sunday, July 29, 1990: First Quarter, 49% lit

Waxing · 49.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 05°

First Quarter at

14:02UTC

Moon phase on July 29, 1990First Quarter

Sunday 29 July 1990402,332 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, July 29, 1990, the Moon was a First Quarter: 49.3% of its visible face lit, 7.4 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

49.3%Illumination at noon UTC
7.4 dMoon age
402,332 km249,998 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (5°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 29, 1990 is on Monday, August 6, 1990 at 14:20 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, July 22, 1990 at 02:54 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, July 22, 199002:54
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, July 29, 199014:02
Full Moon (after)Monday, August 6, 199014:20

The Moon around July 29

More about this date

Sunday, July 29, 1990 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 22, 1990 to the new moon of August 20, 1990, a cycle of 29.41 days.