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The Moon on Friday, April 14, 2006: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 03°

Moon age

16.1days

Moon phase on April 14, 2006Waning Gibbous

Friday 14 April 2006396,555 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, April 14, 2006, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 16.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
16.1 dMoon age
396,555 km246,408 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (4°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 14, 2006 is on Thursday, April 13, 2006 at 16:40 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, April 27, 2006 at 19:44 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, April 13, 200616:40
Last Quarter (after)Friday, April 21, 200603:29

The Moon around April 14

More about this date

Friday, April 14, 2006 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 29, 2006 to the new moon of April 27, 2006, a cycle of 29.39 days.