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The Moon on Tuesday, March 26, 1946: Waning Crescent, 45% lit

Waning · 44.7% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 11°

Moon age

22.7days

Moon phase on March 26, 1946Waning Crescent

Tuesday 26 March 1946397,511 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 26, 1946, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 44.7% of its visible face lit, 22.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

44.7%Illumination at noon UTC
22.7 dMoon age
397,511 km247,002 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (11°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 26, 1946 is on Sunday, March 17, 1946 at 19:11 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, April 2, 1946 at 04:37 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, March 25, 194622:37
New Moon (after)Tuesday, April 2, 194604:37

The Moon around March 26

More about this date

Tuesday, March 26, 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.