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The Moon on Wednesday, March 15, 1944: Waning Gibbous, 74% lit

Waning · 73.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 26°

Moon age

20.4days

Moon phase on March 15, 1944Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 15 March 1944390,378 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, March 15, 1944, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 73.7% of its visible face lit, 20.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

73.7%Illumination at noon UTC
20.4 dMoon age
390,378 km242,570 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (27°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 15, 1944 is on Friday, March 10, 1944 at 00:28 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 24, 1944 at 11:36 UTC, 9 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, March 10, 194400:28
Last Quarter (after)Friday, March 17, 194420:05

The Moon around March 15

More about this date

Wednesday, March 15, 1944 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 24, 1944 to the new moon of March 24, 1944, a cycle of 29.40 days.