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The Moon on Sunday, July 30, 2017: First Quarter, 49% lit

Waxing · 48.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 05°

First Quarter at

15:23UTC

Moon phase on July 30, 2017First Quarter

Sunday 30 July 2017398,816 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, July 30, 2017, the Moon was a First Quarter: 48.7% of its visible face lit, 7.1 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

48.7%Illumination at noon UTC
7.1 dMoon age
398,816 km247,813 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (6°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 30, 2017 is on Monday, August 7, 2017 at 18:11 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, July 23, 2017 at 09:46 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, July 23, 201709:46
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, July 30, 201715:23
Full Moon (after)Monday, August 7, 201718:11

The Moon around July 30

More about this date

Sunday, July 30, 2017 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 23, 2017 to the new moon of August 21, 2017, a cycle of 29.36 days.