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The Moon on Tuesday, March 21, 1950: Waxing Crescent, 7% lit

Waxing · 7.4% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 01°

Moon age

2.9days

Moon phase on March 21, 1950Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 21 March 1950405,324 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 21, 1950, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 7.4% of its visible face lit, 2.9 days after the new moon and growing each night.

7.4%Illumination at noon UTC
2.9 dMoon age
405,324 km251,856 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (2°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 21, 1950 is on Sunday, April 2, 1950 at 20:49 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, March 18, 1950 at 15:20 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, March 18, 195015:20
First Quarter (after)Sunday, March 26, 195020:10

The Moon around March 21

More about this date

Tuesday, March 21, 1950 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 18, 1950 to the new moon of April 17, 1950, a cycle of 29.71 days.