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The Moon on Friday, April 8, 2050: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 98.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 02°

Moon age

16.5days

Moon phase on April 8, 2050Waning Gibbous

Friday 8 April 2050393,973 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, April 8, 2050, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 98.7% of its visible face lit, 16.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

98.7%Illumination at noon UTC
16.5 dMoon age
393,973 km244,803 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (2°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 8, 2050 is on Thursday, April 7, 2050 at 08:12 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, April 21, 2050 at 10:26 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, April 7, 205008:12
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, April 14, 205018:24

The Moon around April 8

More about this date

Friday, April 8, 2050 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 23, 2050 to the new moon of April 21, 2050, a cycle of 29.41 days.