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The Moon on Friday, April 16, 1965: Waning Gibbous, 100% lit

Waning · 99.6% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 02°

Moon age

14.5days

Moon phase on April 16, 1965Waning Gibbous

Friday 16 April 1965384,713 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, April 16, 1965, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.6% of its visible face lit, 14.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.6%Illumination at noon UTC
14.5 dMoon age
384,713 km239,049 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (3°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 16, 1965 is on Thursday, April 15, 1965 at 23:02 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 2, 1965 at 00:21 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, April 15, 196523:02
Last Quarter (after)Friday, April 23, 196521:07

The Moon around April 16

More about this date

Friday, April 16, 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.