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The Moon on Friday, July 27, 2012: Waxing Gibbous, 63% lit

Waxing · 62.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 19°

Moon age

8.3days

Moon phase on July 27, 2012Waxing Gibbous

Friday 27 July 2012368,724 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, July 27, 2012, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 62.9% of its visible face lit, 8.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

62.9%Illumination at noon UTC
8.3 dMoon age
368,724 km229,114 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (20°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 27, 2012 is on Thursday, August 2, 2012 at 03:28 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, July 19, 2012 at 04:24 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, July 26, 201208:56
Full Moon (after)Thursday, August 2, 201203:28

The Moon around July 27

More about this date

Friday, July 27, 2012 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 19, 2012 to the new moon of August 17, 2012, a cycle of 29.48 days.