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The Moon on Thursday, April 5, 1951: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 1.0% lit · ♈︎ Aries 03°

Moon age

28.6days

Moon phase on April 5, 1951Waning Crescent

Thursday 5 April 1951388,349 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, April 5, 1951, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.0% of its visible face lit, 28.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.0%Illumination at noon UTC
28.6 dMoon age
388,349 km241,309 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (4°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 5, 1951 is on Friday, March 23, 1951 at 10:50 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 6, 1951 at 10:52 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around April 5

More about this date

Thursday, April 5, 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.