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The Moon on Friday, April 6, 2007: Waning Gibbous, 88% lit

Waning · 87.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 27°

Moon age

18.4days

Moon phase on April 6, 2007Waning Gibbous

Friday 6 April 2007402,797 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, April 6, 2007, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 87.5% of its visible face lit, 18.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

87.5%Illumination at noon UTC
18.4 dMoon age
402,797 km250,286 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (28°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 6, 2007 is on Monday, April 2, 2007 at 17:15 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 11:36 UTC, 11 days later.

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

The Moon around April 6

More about this date

Friday, April 6, 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.