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The Moon on Saturday, April 3, 1999: Waning Gibbous, 94% lit

Waning · 93.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 11°

Moon age

16.7days

Moon phase on April 3, 1999Waning Gibbous

Saturday 3 April 1999404,702 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, April 3, 1999, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 93.9% of its visible face lit, 16.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

93.9%Illumination at noon UTC
16.7 dMoon age
404,702 km251,470 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (12°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 3, 1999 is on Wednesday, March 31, 1999 at 22:49 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 16, 1999 at 04:22 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, March 31, 199922:49
Last Quarter (after)Friday, April 9, 199902:51

The Moon around April 3

More about this date

Saturday, April 3, 1999 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 17, 1999 to the new moon of April 16, 1999, a cycle of 29.40 days.