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The Moon on Thursday, April 5, 2007: Waning Gibbous, 93% lit

Waning · 93.1% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 15°

Moon age

17.4days

Moon phase on April 5, 2007Waning Gibbous

Thursday 5 April 2007404,726 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, April 5, 2007, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 93.1% of its visible face lit, 17.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

93.1%Illumination at noon UTC
17.4 dMoon age
404,726 km251,485 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (16°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 5, 2007 is on Monday, April 2, 2007 at 17:15 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 11:36 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, April 2, 200717:15
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, April 10, 200718:04

The Moon around April 5

More about this date

Thursday, April 5, 2007 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 19, 2007 to the new moon of April 17, 2007, a cycle of 29.37 days.