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The Moon on Sunday, April 19, 1959: Waxing Gibbous, 82% lit

Waxing · 81.6% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 07°

Moon age

11.4days

Moon phase on April 19, 1959Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 19 April 1959372,773 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 19, 1959, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 81.6% of its visible face lit, 11.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

81.6%Illumination at noon UTC
11.4 dMoon age
372,773 km231,630 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (8°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 19, 1959 is on Thursday, April 23, 1959 at 05:13 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, April 8, 1959 at 03:29 UTC, 11 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, April 16, 195907:33
Full Moon (after)Thursday, April 23, 195905:13

The Moon around April 19

More about this date

Sunday, April 19, 1959 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 8, 1959 to the new moon of May 7, 1959, a cycle of 29.70 days.