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The Moon on Tuesday, July 1, 2008: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.0% lit · ♊︎ Gemini 17°

Moon age

27.7days

Moon phase on July 1, 2008Waning Crescent

Tuesday 1 July 2008359,639 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, July 1, 2008, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.0% of its visible face lit, 27.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.0%Illumination at noon UTC
27.7 dMoon age
359,639 km223,469 mi from Earth
♊︎ GeminiMoon sign (17°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 1, 2008 is on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 17:31 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 02:19 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, June 26, 200812:10
New Moon (after)Thursday, July 3, 200802:19

The Moon around July 1

More about this date

Tuesday, July 1, 2008 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 3, 2008 to the new moon of July 3, 2008, a cycle of 29.29 days.