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The Moon on Wednesday, April 18, 1973: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 08°

Moon age

15.0days

Moon phase on April 18, 1973Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 18 April 1973399,725 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, April 18, 1973, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.0% of its visible face lit, 15.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.0%Illumination at noon UTC
15.0 dMoon age
399,725 km248,378 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (9°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 18, 1973 is on Tuesday, April 17, 1973 at 13:51 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, May 2, 1973 at 20:55 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, April 17, 197313:51
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, April 25, 197317:59

The Moon around April 18

More about this date

Wednesday, April 18, 1973 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 3, 1973 to the new moon of May 2, 1973, a cycle of 29.38 days.