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The Moon on Tuesday, July 20, 2010: Waxing Gibbous, 72% lit

Waxing · 71.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 23°

Moon age

8.7days

Moon phase on July 20, 2010Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 20 July 2010384,811 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, July 20, 2010, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 71.9% of its visible face lit, 8.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

71.9%Illumination at noon UTC
8.7 dMoon age
384,811 km239,111 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (24°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 20, 2010 is on Monday, July 26, 2010 at 01:37 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, July 11, 2010 at 19:41 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, July 18, 201010:11
Full Moon (after)Monday, July 26, 201001:37

The Moon around July 20

More about this date

Tuesday, July 20, 2010 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 11, 2010 to the new moon of August 10, 2010, a cycle of 29.31 days.