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The Moon on Wednesday, July 2, 2008: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.6% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 02°

Moon age

28.7days

Moon phase on July 2, 2008Waning Crescent

Wednesday 2 July 2008359,828 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, July 2, 2008, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.6% of its visible face lit, 28.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.6%Illumination at noon UTC
28.7 dMoon age
359,828 km223,587 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (3°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 2, 2008 is on Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 17:31 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 02:19 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around July 2

More about this date

Wednesday, July 2, 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.