Skip to content
The Moon on Monday, April 21, 1975: Waxing Gibbous, 75% lit

Waxing · 75.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 01°

Moon age

9.8days

Moon phase on April 21, 1975Waxing Gibbous

Monday 21 April 1975365,862 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, April 21, 1975, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 75.5% of its visible face lit, 9.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

75.5%Illumination at noon UTC
9.8 dMoon age
365,862 km227,336 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (1°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 21, 1975 is on Friday, April 25, 1975 at 19:55 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 11, 1975 at 16:39 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, April 19, 197504:41
Full Moon (after)Friday, April 25, 197519:55

The Moon around April 21

More about this date

Monday, April 21, 1975 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 11, 1975 to the new moon of May 11, 1975, a cycle of 29.60 days.