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The Moon on Friday, July 24, 2015: First Quarter, 53% lit

Waxing · 53.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 04°

First Quarter at

04:04UTC

Moon phase on July 24, 2015First Quarter

Friday 24 July 2015399,267 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, July 24, 2015, the Moon was a First Quarter: 53.3% of its visible face lit, 8.4 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

53.3%Illumination at noon UTC
8.4 dMoon age
399,267 km248,093 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (5°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 24, 2015 is on Friday, July 31, 2015 at 10:43 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, July 16, 2015 at 01:25 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, July 16, 201501:25
First Quarter (this day)Friday, July 24, 201504:04
Full Moon (after)Friday, July 31, 201510:43

The Moon around July 24

More about this date

Friday, July 24, 2015 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 16, 2015 to the new moon of August 14, 2015, a cycle of 29.56 days.