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The Moon on Sunday, March 16, 1941: Waning Gibbous, 87% lit

Waning · 87.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 07°

Moon age

18.4days

Moon phase on March 16, 1941Waning Gibbous

Sunday 16 March 1941362,154 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 16, 1941, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 87.2% of its visible face lit, 18.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

87.2%Illumination at noon UTC
18.4 dMoon age
362,154 km225,032 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (7°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 16, 1941 is on Thursday, March 13, 1941 at 11:47 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, March 27, 1941 at 20:14 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, March 13, 194111:47
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, March 20, 194102:51

The Moon around March 16

More about this date

Sunday, March 16, 1941 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 26, 1941 to the new moon of March 27, 1941, a cycle of 29.72 days.