Daily lunar detail

July 2010 Moon Calendar

The month opens with a Waning Gibbous and closes with a Waning Gibbous. 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.

Last QuarterJuly 4, 2010 at 2:35 PM UTC
New MoonJuly 11, 2010 at 7:41 PM UTC
First QuarterJuly 18, 2010 at 10:11 AM UTC
Full MoonJuly 26, 2010 at 1:37 AM UTC

The lunar story of July 2010

New Moon occurs July 11, 2010. Full Moon occurs July 26, 2010. The first major event is Last Quarter on July 4, 2010, and the month progresses from 78% to 75% 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.