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The Moon on Tuesday, April 12, 1960: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 01°

Moon age

16.2days

Moon phase on April 12, 1960Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 12 April 1960368,573 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, April 12, 1960, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.4% of its visible face lit, 16.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.4%Illumination at noon UTC
16.2 dMoon age
368,573 km229,020 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (1°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 12, 1960 is on Monday, April 11, 1960 at 20:27 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, April 25, 1960 at 21:44 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, April 11, 196020:27
Last Quarter (after)Monday, April 18, 196012:57

The Moon around April 12

More about this date

Tuesday, April 12, 1960 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 27, 1960 to the new moon of April 25, 1960, a cycle of 29.59 days.