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The Moon on Tuesday, March 24, 1953: Waxing Gibbous, 71% lit

Waxing · 70.7% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 27°

Moon age

9.0days

Moon phase on March 24, 1953Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 24 March 1953401,066 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 24, 1953, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 70.7% of its visible face lit, 9.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

70.7%Illumination at noon UTC
9.0 dMoon age
401,066 km249,211 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (28°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 24, 1953 is on Monday, March 30, 1953 at 12:55 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, March 15, 1953 at 11:05 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, March 22, 195308:11
Full Moon (after)Monday, March 30, 195312:55

The Moon around March 24

More about this date

Tuesday, March 24, 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.