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The Moon on Friday, April 6, 1928: Waning Gibbous, 98% lit

Waning · 98.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 01°

Moon age

15.6days

Moon phase on April 6, 1928Waning Gibbous

Friday 6 April 1928404,968 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, April 6, 1928, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 98.3% of its visible face lit, 15.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

98.3%Illumination at noon UTC
15.6 dMoon age
404,968 km251,635 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (1°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 6, 1928 is on Thursday, April 5, 1928 at 03:38 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 20, 1928 at 05:25 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, April 5, 192803:38
Last Quarter (after)Friday, April 13, 192808:09

The Moon around April 6

More about this date

Friday, April 6, 1928 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 21, 1928 to the new moon of April 20, 1928, a cycle of 29.37 days.