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The Moon on Friday, April 17, 1908: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 06°

Moon age

16.3days

Moon phase on April 17, 1908Waning Gibbous

Friday 17 April 1908384,796 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, April 17, 1908, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.2% of its visible face lit, 16.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.2%Illumination at noon UTC
16.3 dMoon age
384,796 km239,101 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (7°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 17, 1908 is on Thursday, April 16, 1908 at 16:55 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, April 30, 1908 at 15:33 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, April 16, 190816:55
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, April 23, 190819:07

The Moon around April 17

More about this date

Friday, April 17, 1908 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 1, 1908 to the new moon of April 30, 1908, a cycle of 29.44 days.