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The Moon on Friday, April 9, 1965: First Quarter, 56% lit

Waxing · 55.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 25°

First Quarter at

00:40UTC

Moon phase on April 9, 1965First Quarter

Friday 9 April 1965369,960 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, April 9, 1965, the Moon was a First Quarter: 55.5% of its visible face lit, 7.5 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

55.5%Illumination at noon UTC
7.5 dMoon age
369,960 km229,883 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (26°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 9, 1965 is on Thursday, April 15, 1965 at 23:02 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 2, 1965 at 00:21 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, April 2, 196500:21
First Quarter (this day)Friday, April 9, 196500:40
Full Moon (after)Thursday, April 15, 196523:02

The Moon around April 9

More about this date

Friday, April 9, 1965 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 2, 1965 to the new moon of May 1, 1965, a cycle of 29.48 days.