July 20, 2026
The sky over Houston
the Apollo 11 Moon landing anniversary
Moon
First quarter
46% illuminated
Moonrise / moonset
11:56 AM – 11:21 PM
Also up that night
- M7 — Ptolemy´s Cluster23° up
- M6 — Butterfly Cluster26° up
- M24 — Milky Way patch36° up
- M25 — 33° up
- M39 — 32° up
- M22 — 29° up
Around 21:00 local time the moon was up over Houston — a first quarter, 46% lit. Local time here is estimated from Houston'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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