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The Moon on Monday, April 3, 2017: First Quarter, 47% lit

Waxing · 47.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 10°

First Quarter at

18:40UTC

Moon phase on April 3, 2017First Quarter

Monday 3 April 2017372,073 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, April 3, 2017, the Moon was a First Quarter: 47.0% of its visible face lit, 6.4 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

47.0%Illumination at noon UTC
6.4 dMoon age
372,073 km231,195 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (10°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 3, 2017 is on Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 06:08 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 02:57 UTC, 6 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, March 28, 201702:57
First Quarter (this day)Monday, April 3, 201718:40
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, April 11, 201706:08

The Moon around April 3

More about this date

Monday, April 3, 2017 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 28, 2017 to the new moon of April 26, 2017, a cycle of 29.39 days.