Skip to content
The Moon on Sunday, April 11, 1976: Waxing Gibbous, 87% lit

Waxing · 87.0% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 09°

Moon age

11.8days

Moon phase on April 11, 1976Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 11 April 1976364,059 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 11, 1976, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 87.0% of its visible face lit, 11.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

87.0%Illumination at noon UTC
11.8 dMoon age
364,059 km226,216 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (10°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 11, 1976 is on Wednesday, April 14, 1976 at 11:49 UTC, 3 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, March 30, 1976 at 17:08 UTC, 12 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Wednesday, April 7, 197619:02
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, April 14, 197611:49

The Moon around April 11

More about this date

Sunday, April 11, 1976 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 30, 1976 to the new moon of April 29, 1976, a cycle of 29.72 days.