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The Moon on Tuesday, July 15, 1997: Waxing Gibbous, 75% lit

Waxing · 74.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 22°

Moon age

10.7days

Moon phase on July 15, 1997Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 15 July 1997387,469 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, July 15, 1997, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 74.9% of its visible face lit, 10.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

74.9%Illumination at noon UTC
10.7 dMoon age
387,469 km240,762 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (23°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 15, 1997 is on Sunday, July 20, 1997 at 03:20 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, July 4, 1997 at 18:40 UTC, 11 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, July 12, 199721:44
Full Moon (after)Sunday, July 20, 199703:20

The Moon around July 15

More about this date

Tuesday, July 15, 1997 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 4, 1997 to the new moon of August 3, 1997, a cycle of 29.57 days.