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The Moon on Sunday, April 7, 1940: New Moon, 0% lit

Waning · 0.1% lit · ♈︎ Aries 13°

New Moon at

20:19UTC

Moon phase on April 7, 1940New Moon

Sunday 7 April 1940404,675 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 7, 1940, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.1% of its visible face lit, 29.4 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.1%Illumination at noon UTC
29.4 dMoon age
404,675 km251,453 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (14°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 7, 1940 is on Saturday, March 23, 1940 at 19:33 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, April 7, 1940 at 20:19 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, March 30, 194016:20
New Moon (this day)Sunday, April 7, 194020:19
First Quarter (after)Monday, April 15, 194013:46

The Moon around April 7

More about this date

Sunday, April 7, 1940 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 9, 1940 to the new moon of April 7, 1940, a cycle of 29.75 days.