July 20, 2026
The sky over Chicago
the Apollo 11 Moon landing anniversary
Moon
First quarter
46% illuminated
Moonrise / moonset
11:39 AM – 10:32 PM
Also up that night
- M7 — Ptolemy´s Cluster12° up
- M31 — Andromeda12° up
- M6 — Butterfly Cluster15° up
- M24 — Milky Way patch27° up
- M25 — 26° up
- M39 — 44° up
Around 21:00 local time the moon was up over Chicago — a first quarter, 46% lit. Local time here is estimated from Chicago'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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