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The Moon on Sunday, April 23, 1944: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 0.7% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 11°

Moon age

0.6days

Moon phase on April 23, 1944Waxing Crescent

Sunday 23 April 1944369,293 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 23, 1944, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.7% of its visible face lit, 0.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.7%Illumination at noon UTC
0.6 dMoon age
369,293 km229,468 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (12°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 23, 1944 is on Saturday, April 8, 1944 at 17:22 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, April 22, 1944 at 20:44 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, April 22, 194420:44
First Quarter (after)Sunday, April 30, 194406:07

The Moon around April 23

More about this date

Sunday, April 23, 1944 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 22, 1944 to the new moon of May 22, 1944, a cycle of 29.40 days.