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The Moon on Friday, April 26, 2013: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 15°

Moon age

16.1days

Moon phase on April 26, 2013Waning Gibbous

Friday 26 April 2013363,608 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, April 26, 2013, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.4% of its visible face lit, 16.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.4%Illumination at noon UTC
16.1 dMoon age
363,608 km225,936 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (16°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 26, 2013 is on Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 19:57 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, May 10, 2013 at 00:29 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, April 25, 201319:57
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, May 2, 201311:14

The Moon around April 26

More about this date

Friday, April 26, 2013 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 10, 2013 to the new moon of May 10, 2013, a cycle of 29.62 days.