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The Moon on Sunday, April 26, 1970: Waning Gibbous, 74% lit

Waning · 74.3% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 06°

Moon age

20.3days

Moon phase on April 26, 1970Waning Gibbous

Sunday 26 April 1970372,908 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 26, 1970, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 74.3% of its visible face lit, 20.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

74.3%Illumination at noon UTC
20.3 dMoon age
372,908 km231,714 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (7°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 26, 1970 is on Tuesday, April 21, 1970 at 16:21 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, May 5, 1970 at 14:51 UTC, 9 days later.

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

The Moon around April 26

More about this date

Sunday, April 26, 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.