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The Moon on Tuesday, April 11, 1972: Waning Crescent, 8% lit

Waning · 8.3% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 18°

Moon age

27.0days

Moon phase on April 11, 1972Waning Crescent

Tuesday 11 April 1972364,341 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, April 11, 1972, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 8.3% of its visible face lit, 27.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

8.3%Illumination at noon UTC
27.0 dMoon age
364,341 km226,391 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (19°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 11, 1972 is on Wednesday, March 29, 1972 at 20:06 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, April 13, 1972 at 20:31 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around April 11

More about this date

Tuesday, April 11, 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.