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The Moon on Sunday, March 27, 1949: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.1% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 13°

Moon age

27.6days

Moon phase on March 27, 1949Waning Crescent

Sunday 27 March 1949406,147 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 27, 1949, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.1% of its visible face lit, 27.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.1%Illumination at noon UTC
27.6 dMoon age
406,147 km252,368 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (13°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 27, 1949 is on Monday, March 14, 1949 at 19:03 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, March 29, 1949 at 15:11 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, March 21, 194913:10
New Moon (after)Tuesday, March 29, 194915:11

The Moon around March 27

More about this date

Sunday, March 27, 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.