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The Moon on Tuesday, July 8, 2003: Waxing Gibbous, 66% lit

Waxing · 65.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 04°

Moon age

8.7days

Moon phase on July 8, 2003Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 8 July 2003368,159 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, July 8, 2003, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 65.9% of its visible face lit, 8.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

65.9%Illumination at noon UTC
8.7 dMoon age
368,159 km228,763 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (4°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 8, 2003 is on Sunday, July 13, 2003 at 19:21 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, June 29, 2003 at 18:39 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, July 7, 200302:32
Full Moon (after)Sunday, July 13, 200319:21

The Moon around July 8

More about this date

Tuesday, July 8, 2003 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 29, 2003 to the new moon of July 29, 2003, a cycle of 29.51 days.