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The Moon on Saturday, April 9, 1927: First Quarter, 55% lit

Waxing · 55.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 24°

First Quarter at

00:21UTC

Moon phase on April 9, 1927First Quarter

Saturday 9 April 1927392,308 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, April 9, 1927, the Moon was a First Quarter: 55.0% of its visible face lit, 7.3 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

55.0%Illumination at noon UTC
7.3 dMoon age
392,308 km243,769 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (24°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 9, 1927 is on Sunday, April 17, 1927 at 03:35 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, April 2, 1927 at 04:24 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, April 2, 192704:24
First Quarter (this day)Saturday, April 9, 192700:21
Full Moon (after)Sunday, April 17, 192703:35

The Moon around April 9

More about this date

Saturday, April 9, 1927 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 2, 1927 to the new moon of May 1, 1927, a cycle of 29.34 days.