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The Moon on Sunday, March 27, 1938: Waning Crescent, 19% lit

Waning · 19.3% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 14°

Moon age

25.3days

Moon phase on March 27, 1938Waning Crescent

Sunday 27 March 1938396,288 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 27, 1938, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 19.3% of its visible face lit, 25.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

19.3%Illumination at noon UTC
25.3 dMoon age
396,288 km246,242 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (14°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 27, 1938 is on Wednesday, March 16, 1938 at 05:15 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, March 31, 1938 at 18:52 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, March 24, 193801:06
New Moon (after)Thursday, March 31, 193818:52

The Moon around March 27

More about this date

Sunday, March 27, 1938 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 2, 1938 to the new moon of March 31, 1938, a cycle of 29.55 days.