July 20, 2026
The sky over Los Angeles
the Apollo 11 Moon landing anniversary
Moon
First quarter
47% illuminated
Moonrise / moonset
11:36 AM – 10:49 PM
Also up that night
- M7 — Ptolemy´s Cluster20° up
- M6 — Butterfly Cluster23° up
- M24 — Milky Way patch35° up
- M25 — 33° up
- M39 — 39° up
- M22 — 28° up
Around 21:00 local time the moon was up over Los Angeles — a first quarter, 47% lit. Local time here is estimated from Los Angeles'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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