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The Moon on Thursday, April 8, 1993: Waning Gibbous, 96% lit

Waning · 95.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 12°

Moon age

16.2days

Moon phase on April 8, 1993Waning Gibbous

Thursday 8 April 1993364,859 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, April 8, 1993, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.7% of its visible face lit, 16.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.7%Illumination at noon UTC
16.2 dMoon age
364,859 km226,713 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (13°)
32.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 8, 1993 is on Tuesday, April 6, 1993 at 18:43 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, April 21, 1993 at 23:49 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, April 6, 199318:43
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, April 13, 199319:39

The Moon around April 8

More about this date

Thursday, April 8, 1993 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 23, 1993 to the new moon of April 21, 1993, a cycle of 29.69 days.