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The Moon on Friday, April 6, 1900: First Quarter, 46% lit

Waxing · 46.4% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 11°

First Quarter at

20:55UTC

Moon phase on April 6, 1900First Quarter

Friday 6 April 1900392,938 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, April 6, 1900, the Moon was a First Quarter: 46.4% of its visible face lit, 6.6 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

46.4%Illumination at noon UTC
6.6 dMoon age
392,938 km244,160 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (12°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 6, 1900 is on Sunday, April 15, 1900 at 01:02 UTC, 9 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 30, 1900 at 20:30 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, March 30, 190020:30
First Quarter (this day)Friday, April 6, 190020:55
Full Moon (after)Sunday, April 15, 190001:02

The Moon around April 6

More about this date

Friday, April 6, 1900 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 30, 1900 to the new moon of April 29, 1900, a cycle of 29.37 days.