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The Moon on Tuesday, April 27, 1976: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 3.4% lit · ♈︎ Aries 16°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on April 27, 1976Waning Crescent

Tuesday 27 April 1976406,384 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, April 27, 1976, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.4% of its visible face lit, 27.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.4%Illumination at noon UTC
27.8 dMoon age
406,384 km252,515 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (16°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 27, 1976 is on Wednesday, April 14, 1976 at 11:49 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, April 29, 1976 at 10:20 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, April 21, 197607:14
New Moon (after)Thursday, April 29, 197610:20

The Moon around April 27

More about this date

Tuesday, April 27, 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.