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The Moon on Sunday, March 26, 1950: First Quarter, 47% lit

Waxing · 46.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 01°

First Quarter at

20:10UTC

Moon phase on March 26, 1950First Quarter

Sunday 26 March 1950396,878 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 26, 1950, the Moon was a First Quarter: 46.8% of its visible face lit, 7.9 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

46.8%Illumination at noon UTC
7.9 dMoon age
396,878 km246,609 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (1°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 26, 1950 is on Sunday, April 2, 1950 at 20:49 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, March 18, 1950 at 15:20 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, March 18, 195015:20
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, March 26, 195020:10
Full Moon (after)Sunday, April 2, 195020:49

The Moon around March 26

More about this date

Sunday, March 26, 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.