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The Moon on Tuesday, April 3, 1951: Waning Crescent, 9% lit

Waning · 9.4% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 07°

Moon age

26.6days

Moon phase on April 3, 1951Waning Crescent

Tuesday 3 April 1951381,643 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, April 3, 1951, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 9.4% of its visible face lit, 26.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

9.4%Illumination at noon UTC
26.6 dMoon age
381,643 km237,142 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (7°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 3, 1951 is on Friday, March 23, 1951 at 10:50 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 6, 1951 at 10:52 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, March 30, 195105:35
New Moon (after)Friday, April 6, 195110:52

The Moon around April 3

More about this date

Tuesday, April 3, 1951 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 7, 1951 to the new moon of April 6, 1951, a cycle of 29.58 days.