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The Moon on Sunday, April 5, 2015: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.1% lit · ♎︎ Libra 26°

Moon age

16.1days

Moon phase on April 5, 2015Waning Gibbous

Sunday 5 April 2015400,610 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 5, 2015, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.1% of its visible face lit, 16.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.1%Illumination at noon UTC
16.1 dMoon age
400,610 km248,928 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (26°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 5, 2015 is on Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 12:06 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, April 18, 2015 at 18:57 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, April 4, 201512:06
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, April 12, 201503:45

The Moon around April 5

More about this date

Sunday, April 5, 2015 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 20, 2015 to the new moon of April 18, 2015, a cycle of 29.39 days.