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The Moon on Saturday, April 5, 1941: First Quarter, 55% lit

Waxing · 55.2% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 21°

First Quarter at

00:12UTC

Moon phase on April 5, 1941First Quarter

Saturday 5 April 1941388,413 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, April 5, 1941, the Moon was a First Quarter: 55.2% of its visible face lit, 8.7 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

55.2%Illumination at noon UTC
8.7 dMoon age
388,413 km241,349 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (21°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 5, 1941 is on Friday, April 11, 1941 at 21:15 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, March 27, 1941 at 20:14 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, March 27, 194120:14
First Quarter (this day)Saturday, April 5, 194100:12
Full Moon (after)Friday, April 11, 194121:15

The Moon around April 5

More about this date

Saturday, April 5, 1941 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 27, 1941 to the new moon of April 26, 1941, a cycle of 29.72 days.