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The Moon on Friday, April 15, 1938: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 03°

Moon age

14.7days

Moon phase on April 15, 1938Waning Gibbous

Friday 15 April 1938392,530 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, April 15, 1938, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.4% of its visible face lit, 14.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.4%Illumination at noon UTC
14.7 dMoon age
392,530 km243,907 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (4°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 15, 1938 is on Thursday, April 14, 1938 at 18:21 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, March 31, 1938 at 18:52 UTC, 15 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, April 14, 193818:21
Last Quarter (after)Friday, April 22, 193820:14

The Moon around April 15

More about this date

Friday, April 15, 1938 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 31, 1938 to the new moon of April 30, 1938, a cycle of 29.44 days.