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The Moon on Tuesday, April 6, 2004: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 98.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 00°

Moon age

16.6days

Moon phase on April 6, 2004Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 6 April 2004366,236 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, April 6, 2004, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 98.5% of its visible face lit, 16.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

98.5%Illumination at noon UTC
16.6 dMoon age
366,236 km227,568 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (1°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 6, 2004 is on Monday, April 5, 2004 at 11:03 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, April 19, 2004 at 13:21 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, April 5, 200411:03
Last Quarter (after)Monday, April 12, 200403:46

The Moon around April 6

More about this date

Tuesday, April 6, 2004 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 20, 2004 to the new moon of April 19, 2004, a cycle of 29.61 days.