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The Moon on Tuesday, April 30, 1991: Waning Gibbous, 97% lit

Waning · 97.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 28°

Moon age

15.7days

Moon phase on April 30, 1991Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 30 April 1991400,697 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, April 30, 1991, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 97.3% of its visible face lit, 15.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

97.3%Illumination at noon UTC
15.7 dMoon age
400,697 km248,981 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (28°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 30, 1991 is on Sunday, April 28, 1991 at 20:59 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, May 14, 1991 at 04:36 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, April 28, 199120:59
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, May 7, 199100:46

The Moon around April 30

More about this date

Tuesday, April 30, 1991 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 14, 1991 to the new moon of May 14, 1991, a cycle of 29.37 days.