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The Moon on Tuesday, March 23, 1920: Waxing Crescent, 12% lit

Waxing · 11.7% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 12°

Moon age

3.0days

Moon phase on March 23, 1920Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 23 March 1920368,555 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 23, 1920, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 11.7% of its visible face lit, 3.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

11.7%Illumination at noon UTC
3.0 dMoon age
368,555 km229,009 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (12°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 23, 1920 is on Saturday, April 3, 1920 at 10:54 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, March 20, 1920 at 10:56 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, March 20, 192010:56
First Quarter (after)Saturday, March 27, 192006:45

The Moon around March 23

More about this date

Tuesday, March 23, 1920 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 20, 1920 to the new moon of April 18, 1920, a cycle of 29.45 days.