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The Moon on Sunday, April 22, 2018: First Quarter, 45% lit

Waxing · 45.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 26°

First Quarter at

21:46UTC

Moon phase on April 22, 2018First Quarter

Sunday 22 April 2018369,870 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 22, 2018, the Moon was a First Quarter: 45.5% of its visible face lit, 6.4 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

45.5%Illumination at noon UTC
6.4 dMoon age
369,870 km229,826 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (27°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 22, 2018 is on Monday, April 30, 2018 at 00:58 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, April 16, 2018 at 01:57 UTC, 6 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, April 16, 201801:57
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, April 22, 201821:46
Full Moon (after)Monday, April 30, 201800:58

The Moon around April 22

More about this date

Sunday, April 22, 2018 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 16, 2018 to the new moon of May 15, 2018, a cycle of 29.41 days.