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The Moon on Sunday, April 4, 1999: Waning Gibbous, 89% lit

Waning · 88.6% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 23°

Moon age

17.7days

Moon phase on April 4, 1999Waning Gibbous

Sunday 4 April 1999405,508 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 4, 1999, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 88.6% of its visible face lit, 17.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

88.6%Illumination at noon UTC
17.7 dMoon age
405,508 km251,971 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (24°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 4, 1999 is on Wednesday, March 31, 1999 at 22:49 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 16, 1999 at 04:22 UTC, 12 days later.

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

The Moon around April 4

More about this date

Sunday, April 4, 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.