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The Moon on Sunday, April 16, 1950: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.7% lit · ♈︎ Aries 16°

Moon age

28.9days

Moon phase on April 16, 1950Waning Crescent

Sunday 16 April 1950404,649 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 16, 1950, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.7% of its visible face lit, 28.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.7%Illumination at noon UTC
28.9 dMoon age
404,649 km251,437 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (17°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 16, 1950 is on Sunday, April 2, 1950 at 20:49 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, April 17, 1950 at 08:25 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, April 9, 195011:42
New Moon (after)Monday, April 17, 195008:25

The Moon around April 16

More about this date

Sunday, April 16, 1950 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 18, 1950 to the new moon of April 17, 1950, a cycle of 29.71 days.