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The Moon on Monday, April 24, 1950: Waxing Crescent, 41% lit

Waxing · 40.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 22°

Moon age

7.1days

Moon phase on April 24, 1950Waxing Crescent

Monday 24 April 1950392,717 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, April 24, 1950, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 40.5% of its visible face lit, 7.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

40.5%Illumination at noon UTC
7.1 dMoon age
392,717 km244,023 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (23°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 24, 1950 is on Tuesday, May 2, 1950 at 05:19 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, April 17, 1950 at 08:25 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, April 17, 195008:25
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, April 25, 195010:40

The Moon around April 24

More about this date

Monday, April 24, 1950 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 17, 1950 to the new moon of May 17, 1950, a cycle of 29.69 days.