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The Moon on Wednesday, April 22, 1970: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.1% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 11°

Moon age

16.3days

Moon phase on April 22, 1970Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 22 April 1970383,863 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, April 22, 1970, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.1% of its visible face lit, 16.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.1%Illumination at noon UTC
16.3 dMoon age
383,863 km238,521 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (12°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 22, 1970 is on Tuesday, April 21, 1970 at 16:21 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, May 5, 1970 at 14:51 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, April 21, 197016:21
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, April 28, 197017:18

The Moon around April 22

More about this date

Wednesday, April 22, 1970 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 6, 1970 to the new moon of May 5, 1970, a cycle of 29.45 days.