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The Moon on Monday, March 21, 1949: Last Quarter, 51% lit

Waning · 50.6% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 29°

Last Quarter at

13:10UTC

Moon phase on March 21, 1949Last Quarter

Monday 21 March 1949386,280 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, March 21, 1949, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 50.6% of its visible face lit, 21.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

50.6%Illumination at noon UTC
21.6 dMoon age
386,280 km240,023 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (30°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 21, 1949 is on Monday, March 14, 1949 at 19:03 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, March 29, 1949 at 15:11 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, March 14, 194919:03
Last Quarter (this day)Monday, March 21, 194913:10
New Moon (after)Tuesday, March 29, 194915:11

The Moon around March 21

More about this date

Monday, March 21, 1949 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 27, 1949 to the new moon of March 29, 1949, a cycle of 29.76 days.