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The Moon on Friday, April 27, 2007: Waxing Gibbous, 80% lit

Waxing · 79.8% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 13°

Moon age

10.0days

Moon phase on April 27, 2007Waxing Gibbous

Friday 27 April 2007402,517 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, April 27, 2007, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 79.8% of its visible face lit, 10.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

79.8%Illumination at noon UTC
10.0 dMoon age
402,517 km250,112 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (13°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 27, 2007 is on Wednesday, May 2, 2007 at 10:10 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 11:36 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, April 24, 200706:36
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, May 2, 200710:10

The Moon around April 27

More about this date

Friday, April 27, 2007 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 17, 2007 to the new moon of May 16, 2007, a cycle of 29.33 days.