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The Moon on Tuesday, March 26, 1940: Waning Gibbous, 90% lit

Waning · 89.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 13°

Moon age

17.4days

Moon phase on March 26, 1940Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 26 March 1940365,782 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 26, 1940, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 89.7% of its visible face lit, 17.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

89.7%Illumination at noon UTC
17.4 dMoon age
365,782 km227,286 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (13°)
32.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 26, 1940 is on Saturday, March 23, 1940 at 19:33 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, April 7, 1940 at 20:19 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, March 23, 194019:33
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, March 30, 194016:20

The Moon around March 26

More about this date

Tuesday, March 26, 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.