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The Moon on Wednesday, March 18, 1953: Waxing Crescent, 13% lit

Waxing · 13.2% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 09°

Moon age

3.0days

Moon phase on March 18, 1953Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 18 March 1953368,664 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, March 18, 1953, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 13.2% of its visible face lit, 3.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

13.2%Illumination at noon UTC
3.0 dMoon age
368,664 km229,077 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (10°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 18, 1953 is on Monday, March 30, 1953 at 12:55 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, March 15, 1953 at 11:05 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, March 15, 195311:05
First Quarter (after)Sunday, March 22, 195308:11

The Moon around March 18

More about this date

Wednesday, March 18, 1953 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 15, 1953 to the new moon of April 13, 1953, a cycle of 29.38 days.