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The Moon on Sunday, March 24, 1946: Waning Gibbous, 64% lit

Waning · 63.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 17°

Moon age

20.7days

Moon phase on March 24, 1946Waning Gibbous

Sunday 24 March 1946403,543 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 24, 1946, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 63.7% of its visible face lit, 20.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

63.7%Illumination at noon UTC
20.7 dMoon age
403,543 km250,750 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (17°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 24, 1946 is on Sunday, March 17, 1946 at 19:11 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, April 2, 1946 at 04:37 UTC, 9 days later.

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

The Moon around March 24

More about this date

Sunday, March 24, 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.