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The Moon on Saturday, April 27, 1918: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 98.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 19°

Moon age

16.3days

Moon phase on April 27, 1918Waning Gibbous

Saturday 27 April 1918398,672 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, April 27, 1918, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 98.7% of its visible face lit, 16.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

98.7%Illumination at noon UTC
16.3 dMoon age
398,672 km247,723 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (19°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 27, 1918 is on Friday, April 26, 1918 at 08:05 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, May 10, 1918 at 13:01 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, April 26, 191808:05
Last Quarter (after)Friday, May 3, 191822:26

The Moon around April 27

More about this date

Saturday, April 27, 1918 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 11, 1918 to the new moon of May 10, 1918, a cycle of 29.35 days.