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The Moon on Friday, March 31, 1944: First Quarter, 50% lit

Waxing · 49.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 10°

First Quarter at

12:34UTC

Moon phase on March 31, 1944First Quarter

Friday 31 March 1944395,748 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, March 31, 1944, the Moon was a First Quarter: 49.9% of its visible face lit, 7.0 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

49.9%Illumination at noon UTC
7.0 dMoon age
395,748 km245,906 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (10°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 31, 1944 is on Saturday, April 8, 1944 at 17:22 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 24, 1944 at 11:36 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, March 24, 194411:36
First Quarter (this day)Friday, March 31, 194412:34
Full Moon (after)Saturday, April 8, 194417:22

The Moon around March 31

More about this date

Friday, March 31, 1944 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 24, 1944 to the new moon of April 22, 1944, a cycle of 29.38 days.