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The Moon on Sunday, June 29, 1997: Waning Crescent, 29% lit

Waning · 28.7% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 03°

Moon age

24.2days

Moon phase on June 29, 1997Waning Crescent

Sunday 29 June 1997376,430 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, June 29, 1997, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 28.7% of its visible face lit, 24.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

28.7%Illumination at noon UTC
24.2 dMoon age
376,430 km233,903 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (3°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 29, 1997 is on Friday, June 20, 1997 at 19:09 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, July 4, 1997 at 18:40 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, June 27, 199712:42
New Moon (after)Friday, July 4, 199718:40

The Moon around June 29

More about this date

Sunday, June 29, 1997 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 5, 1997 to the new moon of July 4, 1997, a cycle of 29.48 days.