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The Moon on Friday, April 9, 1999: Last Quarter, 46% lit

Waning · 46.4% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 23°

Last Quarter at

02:51UTC

Moon phase on April 9, 1999Last Quarter

Friday 9 April 1999394,005 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, April 9, 1999, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 46.4% of its visible face lit, 22.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

46.4%Illumination at noon UTC
22.7 dMoon age
394,005 km244,823 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (24°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 9, 1999 is on Wednesday, March 31, 1999 at 22:49 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 16, 1999 at 04:22 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, March 31, 199922:49
Last Quarter (this day)Friday, April 9, 199902:51
New Moon (after)Friday, April 16, 199904:22

The Moon around April 9

More about this date

Friday, April 9, 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.