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The Moon on Tuesday, March 19, 1940: Waxing Gibbous, 75% lit

Waxing · 74.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 28°

Moon age

10.4days

Moon phase on March 19, 1940Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 19 March 1940369,970 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 19, 1940, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 74.9% of its visible face lit, 10.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

74.9%Illumination at noon UTC
10.4 dMoon age
369,970 km229,888 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (29°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 19, 1940 is on Saturday, March 23, 1940 at 19:33 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, March 9, 1940 at 02:23 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, March 17, 194003:25
Full Moon (after)Saturday, March 23, 194019:33

The Moon around March 19

More about this date

Tuesday, March 19, 1940 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 9, 1940 to the new moon of April 7, 1940, a cycle of 29.75 days.