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The Moon on Tuesday, July 21, 1998: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 5.2% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 02°

Moon age

27.3days

Moon phase on July 21, 1998Waning Crescent

Tuesday 21 July 1998376,461 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, July 21, 1998, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.2% of its visible face lit, 27.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.2%Illumination at noon UTC
27.3 dMoon age
376,461 km233,922 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (2°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 21, 1998 is on Thursday, July 9, 1998 at 16:01 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, July 23, 1998 at 13:44 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, July 16, 199815:14
New Moon (after)Thursday, July 23, 199813:44

The Moon around July 21

More about this date

Tuesday, July 21, 1998 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 24, 1998 to the new moon of July 23, 1998, a cycle of 29.41 days.