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The Moon on Sunday, April 7, 1957: First Quarter, 46% lit

Waxing · 46.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 12°

First Quarter at

20:33UTC

Moon phase on April 7, 1957First Quarter

Sunday 7 April 1957374,015 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 7, 1957, the Moon was a First Quarter: 46.1% of its visible face lit, 7.1 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

46.1%Illumination at noon UTC
7.1 dMoon age
374,015 km232,402 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (13°)
31.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 7, 1957 is on Sunday, April 14, 1957 at 12:09 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, March 31, 1957 at 09:19 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, March 31, 195709:19
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, April 7, 195720:33
Full Moon (after)Sunday, April 14, 195712:09

The Moon around April 7

More about this date

Sunday, April 7, 1957 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 31, 1957 to the new moon of April 29, 1957, a cycle of 29.61 days.