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The Moon on Sunday, March 5, 1950: Waning Gibbous, 98% lit

Waning · 98.4% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 28°

Moon age

16.5days

Moon phase on March 5, 1950Waning Gibbous

Sunday 5 March 1950363,633 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 5, 1950, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 98.4% of its visible face lit, 16.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

98.4%Illumination at noon UTC
16.5 dMoon age
363,633 km225,951 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (29°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 5, 1950 is on Saturday, March 4, 1950 at 10:34 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, March 18, 1950 at 15:20 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, March 4, 195010:34
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, March 11, 195002:38

The Moon around March 5

More about this date

Sunday, March 5, 1950 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 16, 1950 to the new moon of March 18, 1950, a cycle of 29.69 days.