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The Moon on Saturday, April 5, 2008: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.7% lit · ♈︎ Aries 06°

Moon age

28.8days

Moon phase on April 5, 2008Waning Crescent

Saturday 5 April 2008365,418 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, April 5, 2008, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.7% of its visible face lit, 28.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.7%Illumination at noon UTC
28.8 dMoon age
365,418 km227,060 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (7°)
32.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 5, 2008 is on Friday, March 21, 2008 at 18:40 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 03:55 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, March 29, 200821:48
New Moon (after)Sunday, April 6, 200803:55

The Moon around April 5

More about this date

Saturday, April 5, 2008 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 7, 2008 to the new moon of April 6, 2008, a cycle of 29.45 days.