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The Moon on Sunday, April 15, 2001: Last Quarter, 52% lit

Waning · 51.5% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 23°

Last Quarter at

15:31UTC

Moon phase on April 15, 2001Last Quarter

Sunday 15 April 2001402,535 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 15, 2001, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 51.5% of its visible face lit, 21.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

51.5%Illumination at noon UTC
21.4 dMoon age
402,535 km250,123 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (24°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 15, 2001 is on Sunday, April 8, 2001 at 03:22 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, April 23, 2001 at 15:26 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, April 8, 200103:22
Last Quarter (this day)Sunday, April 15, 200115:31
New Moon (after)Monday, April 23, 200115:26

The Moon around April 15

More about this date

Sunday, April 15, 2001 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 25, 2001 to the new moon of April 23, 2001, a cycle of 29.59 days.