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The Moon on Sunday, April 5, 1970: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.7% lit · ♈︎ Aries 06°

Moon age

28.8days

Moon phase on April 5, 1970Waning Crescent

Sunday 5 April 1970367,615 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 5, 1970, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.7% of its visible face lit, 28.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.7%Illumination at noon UTC
28.8 dMoon age
367,615 km228,426 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (6°)
32.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 5, 1970 is on Monday, March 23, 1970 at 01:53 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, April 6, 1970 at 04:09 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, March 30, 197011:05
New Moon (after)Monday, April 6, 197004:09

The Moon around April 5

More about this date

Sunday, April 5, 1970 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 7, 1970 to the new moon of April 6, 1970, a cycle of 29.44 days.