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The Moon on Monday, March 29, 1948: Waning Gibbous, 78% lit

Waning · 77.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 05°

Moon age

18.6days

Moon phase on March 29, 1948Waning Gibbous

Monday 29 March 1948386,164 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, March 29, 1948, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 77.8% of its visible face lit, 18.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

77.8%Illumination at noon UTC
18.6 dMoon age
386,164 km239,951 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (5°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 29, 1948 is on Thursday, March 25, 1948 at 03:10 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 9, 1948 at 13:17 UTC, 11 days later.

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

The Moon around March 29

More about this date

Monday, March 29, 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.