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The Moon on Friday, April 18, 2003: Waning Gibbous, 96% lit

Waning · 95.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 21°

Moon age

16.7days

Moon phase on April 18, 2003Waning Gibbous

Friday 18 April 2003358,766 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, April 18, 2003, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.7% of its visible face lit, 16.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.7%Illumination at noon UTC
16.7 dMoon age
358,766 km222,927 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (22°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 18, 2003 is on Wednesday, April 16, 2003 at 19:36 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, May 1, 2003 at 12:15 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, April 16, 200319:36
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, April 23, 200312:18

The Moon around April 18

More about this date

Friday, April 18, 2003 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 1, 2003 to the new moon of May 1, 2003, a cycle of 29.71 days.