The Sky for July 2018

Thanksgiving (U.S.A.)

July 1, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waning gibbous.

July 2, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waning gibbous today.

July 3, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waning gibbous today.

July 4, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waning gibbous today. Happy birthday, America.

July 5, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waning gibbous today.

July 6, 2018

The Moon reaches third quarter phase at 7:51 U.T. today. At 16:47 U.T. today, the Earth is at aphelion, its farthest distance from the Sun. In the north, it’s currently summer, and probably rather hot today. But the seasons on Earth are primarily caused by the obliquity of Earth’s axis.

July 7, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waning crescent today.

July 8, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waning crescent today.

July 9, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waning crescent today.

July 10, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waning crescent today.

July 11, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waning crescent today.

July 12, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waning crescent today.

July 13, 2018

The Moon is New at 2:48 U.T. today, which is late on the evening of the 12th in the United States.

July 14, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waxing crescent today.

July 15, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waxing crescent today.

July 16, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waxing crescent today, approximately the same phase as 49 years ago when an epic voyage began. On this date in 1969, Apollo 11 left pad 39A in Florida for the Moon. Here is how we saw it back then.

July 17, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waxing crescent today.

July 18, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waxing crescent today. For those of you in North America, the bright star almost directly overhead just after sunset is Vega, a blue-white main sequence star only 27 light years from Earth, and one of the three stars in the Summer Triangle.

July 19, 2018

The Moon is at first quarter phase at 19:52 U.T. today.

July 20, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waxing gibbous today. Let us remember that forty-nine years ago, the United States did something amazing. It is baffling today that the conviction exists, among some, that the whole thing was faked. How will people view the first human landing on the Moon two hundred years from now?

July 21, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waxing gibbous today.

July 22, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waxing gibbous today.

July 23, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waxing gibbous today.

July 24, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waxing gibbous today.

July 25, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waxing gibbous today.

July 26, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waxing gibbous today.

July 27, 2018

The Moon is Full at 20:20 U.T. today. The Full Moon of July is called the Beach Moon in modern folklore.

July 28, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waning gibbous today.

July 29, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waning gibbous today.

July 30, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waning gibbous today.

July 31, 2018

The phase of the Moon is waning gibbous today.

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