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The Moon on Sunday, March 18, 1951: Waxing Gibbous, 75% lit

Waxing · 75.4% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 27°

Moon age

10.6days

Moon phase on March 18, 1951Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 18 March 1951397,808 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 18, 1951, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 75.4% of its visible face lit, 10.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

75.4%Illumination at noon UTC
10.6 dMoon age
397,808 km247,186 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (28°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 18, 1951 is on Friday, March 23, 1951 at 10:50 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, March 7, 1951 at 20:51 UTC, 11 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, March 15, 195117:40
Full Moon (after)Friday, March 23, 195110:50

The Moon around March 18

More about this date

Sunday, March 18, 1951 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 7, 1951 to the new moon of April 6, 1951, a cycle of 29.58 days.