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The Moon on Tuesday, April 22, 2008: Waning Gibbous, 96% lit

Waning · 96.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 25°

Moon age

16.3days

Moon phase on April 22, 2008Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 22 April 2008405,600 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, April 22, 2008, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 96.0% of its visible face lit, 16.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

96.0%Illumination at noon UTC
16.3 dMoon age
405,600 km252,028 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (25°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 22, 2008 is on Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 10:26 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, May 5, 2008 at 12:18 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, April 20, 200810:26
Last Quarter (after)Monday, April 28, 200814:12

The Moon around April 22

More about this date

Tuesday, April 22, 2008 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 6, 2008 to the new moon of May 5, 2008, a cycle of 29.35 days.