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The Moon on Tuesday, March 30, 1948: Waning Gibbous, 69% lit

Waning · 68.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 17°

Moon age

19.6days

Moon phase on March 30, 1948Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 30 March 1948391,762 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 30, 1948, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 68.7% of its visible face lit, 19.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

68.7%Illumination at noon UTC
19.6 dMoon age
391,762 km243,430 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (18°)
30.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 30, 1948 is on Thursday, March 25, 1948 at 03:10 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 9, 1948 at 13:17 UTC, 10 days later.

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

The Moon around March 30

More about this date

Tuesday, March 30, 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.