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The Moon on Friday, April 7, 1972: Waning Crescent, 45% lit

Waning · 44.9% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 23°

Moon age

23.0days

Moon phase on April 7, 1972Waning Crescent

Friday 7 April 1972387,970 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, April 7, 1972, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 44.9% of its visible face lit, 23.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

44.9%Illumination at noon UTC
23.0 dMoon age
387,970 km241,073 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (24°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 7, 1972 is on Wednesday, March 29, 1972 at 20:06 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, April 13, 1972 at 20:31 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, April 6, 197223:45
New Moon (after)Thursday, April 13, 197220:31

The Moon around April 7

More about this date

Friday, April 7, 1972 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 15, 1972 to the new moon of April 13, 1972, a cycle of 29.37 days.