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The Moon on Thursday, March 16, 1922: Waning Gibbous, 87% lit

Waning · 87.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 07°

Moon age

17.7days

Moon phase on March 16, 1922Waning Gibbous

Thursday 16 March 1922368,285 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, March 16, 1922, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 87.2% of its visible face lit, 17.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

87.2%Illumination at noon UTC
17.7 dMoon age
368,285 km228,842 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (7°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 16, 1922 is on Monday, March 13, 1922 at 11:14 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, March 28, 1922 at 13:03 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, March 13, 192211:14
Last Quarter (after)Monday, March 20, 192208:43

The Moon around March 16

More about this date

Thursday, March 16, 1922 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 26, 1922 to the new moon of March 28, 1922, a cycle of 29.76 days.