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The Moon on Friday, March 22, 1946: Waning Gibbous, 80% lit

Waning · 80.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 23°

Moon age

18.7days

Moon phase on March 22, 1946Waning Gibbous

Friday 22 March 1946404,769 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, March 22, 1946, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 80.4% of its visible face lit, 18.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

80.4%Illumination at noon UTC
18.7 dMoon age
404,769 km251,512 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (24°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 22, 1946 is on Sunday, March 17, 1946 at 19:11 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, April 2, 1946 at 04:37 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, March 17, 194619:11
Last Quarter (after)Monday, March 25, 194622:37

The Moon around March 22

More about this date

Friday, March 22, 1946 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 3, 1946 to the new moon of April 2, 1946, a cycle of 29.44 days.