Daily lunar detail

June 1978 Moon Calendar

The month opens with a Waning Crescent and closes with a Waning Crescent. It contains 4 exact major phase events.

Icons use the common Northern Hemisphere convention: waxing light on the right, waning light on the left. Your sky may appear rotated at other latitudes.

New MoonJune 5, 1978 at 7:02 PM UTC
First QuarterJune 13, 1978 at 10:44 PM UTC
Full MoonJune 20, 1978 at 8:31 PM UTC
Last QuarterJune 27, 1978 at 11:44 AM UTC

The lunar story of June 1978

New Moon occurs June 5, 1978. Full Moon occurs June 20, 1978. The first major event is New Moon on June 5, 1978, and the month progresses from 17% to 21% illumination at noon UTC on its boundary dates.

Choosing a day

Select any Moon to open its precise phase angle, illuminated fraction, elapsed age since New Moon, trend, and neighboring event. Date result pages remain shareable but are excluded from search indexing.

Questions, answered

Frequently asked questions

What time are daily phases calculated?

12:00 UTC, chosen deliberately to keep date-only selections stable worldwide.

Why can a local phase event fall on another date?

An event near 00:00 UTC may occur on the previous local date west of Greenwich or the next local date east of it.

Do the icons show sky orientation?

They use a Northern Hemisphere convention; actual orientation rotates with latitude and viewing angle.