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The Moon on Sunday, April 17, 1938: Waning Gibbous, 93% lit

Waning · 92.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 28°

Moon age

16.7days

Moon phase on April 17, 1938Waning Gibbous

Sunday 17 April 1938399,269 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 17, 1938, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 92.7% of its visible face lit, 16.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

92.7%Illumination at noon UTC
16.7 dMoon age
399,269 km248,094 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (28°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 17, 1938 is on Thursday, April 14, 1938 at 18:21 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, April 30, 1938 at 05:28 UTC, 13 days later.

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

The Moon around April 17

More about this date

Sunday, April 17, 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.