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The Moon on Thursday, April 22, 1999: First Quarter, 47% lit

Waxing · 46.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 28°

First Quarter at

19:02UTC

Moon phase on April 22, 1999First Quarter

Thursday 22 April 1999377,361 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, April 22, 1999, the Moon was a First Quarter: 46.9% of its visible face lit, 6.3 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

46.9%Illumination at noon UTC
6.3 dMoon age
377,361 km234,481 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (28°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 22, 1999 is on Friday, April 30, 1999 at 14:55 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 16, 1999 at 04:22 UTC, 6 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, April 16, 199904:22
First Quarter (this day)Thursday, April 22, 199919:02
Full Moon (after)Friday, April 30, 199914:55

The Moon around April 22

More about this date

Thursday, April 22, 1999 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 16, 1999 to the new moon of May 15, 1999, a cycle of 29.32 days.