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The Moon on Sunday, March 12, 1950: Waning Crescent, 35% lit

Waning · 35.0% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 09°

Moon age

23.5days

Moon phase on March 12, 1950Waning Crescent

Sunday 12 March 1950379,513 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 12, 1950, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 35.0% of its visible face lit, 23.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

35.0%Illumination at noon UTC
23.5 dMoon age
379,513 km235,818 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (9°)
31.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 12, 1950 is on Saturday, March 4, 1950 at 10:34 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, March 18, 1950 at 15:20 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, March 11, 195002:38
New Moon (after)Saturday, March 18, 195015:20

The Moon around March 12

More about this date

Sunday, March 12, 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.