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The Moon on Tuesday, April 8, 1986: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.6% lit · ♈︎ Aries 09°

Moon age

28.9days

Moon phase on April 8, 1986Waning Crescent

Tuesday 8 April 1986396,268 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, April 8, 1986, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.6% of its visible face lit, 28.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.6%Illumination at noon UTC
28.9 dMoon age
396,268 km246,229 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (10°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 8, 1986 is on Wednesday, March 26, 1986 at 03:02 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, April 9, 1986 at 06:08 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, April 1, 198619:30
New Moon (after)Wednesday, April 9, 198606:08

The Moon around April 8

More about this date

Tuesday, April 8, 1986 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 10, 1986 to the new moon of April 9, 1986, a cycle of 29.64 days.