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The Moon on Wednesday, March 23, 1927: Waning Gibbous, 78% lit

Waning · 78.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 27°

Moon age

19.7days

Moon phase on March 23, 1927Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 23 March 1927398,830 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, March 23, 1927, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 78.3% of its visible face lit, 19.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

78.3%Illumination at noon UTC
19.7 dMoon age
398,830 km247,821 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (27°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 23, 1927 is on Friday, March 18, 1927 at 10:24 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, April 2, 1927 at 04:24 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, March 18, 192710:24
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, March 26, 192711:35

The Moon around March 23

More about this date

Wednesday, March 23, 1927 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 3, 1927 to the new moon of April 2, 1927, a cycle of 29.37 days.