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The Moon on Sunday, April 22, 1951: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 09°

Moon age

16.0days

Moon phase on April 22, 1951Waning Gibbous

Sunday 22 April 1951364,010 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 22, 1951, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.4% of its visible face lit, 16.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.4%Illumination at noon UTC
16.0 dMoon age
364,010 km226,185 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (10°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 22, 1951 is on Saturday, April 21, 1951 at 21:30 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, May 6, 1951 at 01:36 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, April 21, 195121:30
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, April 28, 195112:18

The Moon around April 22

More about this date

Sunday, April 22, 1951 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 6, 1951 to the new moon of May 6, 1951, a cycle of 29.61 days.