July 20, 2026
The sky over Cape Town
the Apollo 11 Moon landing anniversary
Moon
First quarter
43% illuminated
Moonrise / moonset
10:18 AM – 11:37 PM
Also up that night
- M7 — Ptolemy´s Cluster81° up
- M6 — Butterfly Cluster83° up
- M24 — Milky Way patch68° up
- M25 — 66° up
- M22 — 68° up
- M23 — 72° up
Around 21:00 local time the moon was up over Cape Town — a first quarter, 43% lit. Local time here is estimated from Cape Town's longitude rather than looked up from a timezone database — within about an hour almost everywhere (see the free generator for the same trade-off spelled out).
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