Skip to content
The Moon on Friday, April 16, 1954: Waxing Gibbous, 97% lit

Waxing · 97.1% lit · ♎︎ Libra 06°

Moon age

13.0days

Moon phase on April 16, 1954Waxing Gibbous

Friday 16 April 1954405,860 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, April 16, 1954, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 97.1% of its visible face lit, 13.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

97.1%Illumination at noon UTC
13.0 dMoon age
405,860 km252,190 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (7°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 16, 1954 is on Sunday, April 18, 1954 at 05:49 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, April 3, 1954 at 12:25 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, April 10, 195405:06
Full Moon (after)Sunday, April 18, 195405:49

The Moon around April 16

More about this date

Friday, April 16, 1954 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 3, 1954 to the new moon of May 2, 1954, a cycle of 29.33 days.