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The Moon on Saturday, March 27, 1948: Waning Gibbous, 93% lit

Waning · 92.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 08°

Moon age

16.6days

Moon phase on March 27, 1948Waning Gibbous

Saturday 27 March 1948374,499 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, March 27, 1948, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 92.7% of its visible face lit, 16.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

92.7%Illumination at noon UTC
16.6 dMoon age
374,499 km232,703 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (8°)
31.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 27, 1948 is on Thursday, March 25, 1948 at 03:10 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 9, 1948 at 13:17 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, March 25, 194803:10
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, April 1, 194810:25

The Moon around March 27

More about this date

Saturday, March 27, 1948 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 10, 1948 to the new moon of April 9, 1948, a cycle of 29.67 days.