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The Moon on Tuesday, March 21, 1944: Waning Crescent, 13% lit

Waning · 12.8% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 18°

Moon age

26.4days

Moon phase on March 21, 1944Waning Crescent

Tuesday 21 March 1944362,056 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 21, 1944, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 12.8% of its visible face lit, 26.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

12.8%Illumination at noon UTC
26.4 dMoon age
362,056 km224,971 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (19°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 21, 1944 is on Friday, March 10, 1944 at 00:28 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 24, 1944 at 11:36 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, March 17, 194420:05
New Moon (after)Friday, March 24, 194411:36

The Moon around March 21

More about this date

Tuesday, March 21, 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.