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The Moon on Tuesday, April 26, 1960: Waxing Crescent, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.5% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 13°

Moon age

0.6days

Moon phase on April 26, 1960Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 26 April 1960397,963 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, April 26, 1960, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.5% of its visible face lit, 0.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.5%Illumination at noon UTC
0.6 dMoon age
397,963 km247,283 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (13°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 26, 1960 is on Monday, April 11, 1960 at 20:27 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, April 25, 1960 at 21:44 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, April 25, 196021:44
First Quarter (after)Wednesday, May 4, 196001:01

The Moon around April 26

More about this date

Tuesday, April 26, 1960 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 25, 1960 to the new moon of May 25, 1960, a cycle of 29.61 days.