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The Moon on Wednesday, March 22, 1944: Waning Crescent, 6% lit

Waning · 5.9% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 03°

Moon age

27.4days

Moon phase on March 22, 1944Waning Crescent

Wednesday 22 March 1944359,635 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, March 22, 1944, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.9% of its visible face lit, 27.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.9%Illumination at noon UTC
27.4 dMoon age
359,635 km223,467 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (4°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 22, 1944 is on Friday, March 10, 1944 at 00:28 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 24, 1944 at 11:36 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around March 22

More about this date

Wednesday, March 22, 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.