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The Moon on Sunday, April 7, 1974: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.4% lit · ♎︎ Libra 25°

Moon age

14.6days

Moon phase on April 7, 1974Waning Gibbous

Sunday 7 April 1974378,967 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 7, 1974, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.4% of its visible face lit, 14.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.4%Illumination at noon UTC
14.6 dMoon age
378,967 km235,479 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (25°)
31.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 7, 1974 is on Saturday, April 6, 1974 at 21:00 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, March 23, 1974 at 21:24 UTC, 15 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, April 6, 197421:00
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, April 14, 197414:58

The Moon around April 7

More about this date

Sunday, April 7, 1974 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 23, 1974 to the new moon of April 22, 1974, a cycle of 29.54 days.