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The Moon on Friday, March 5, 1954: New Moon, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.3% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 19°

New Moon at

03:11UTC

Moon phase on March 5, 1954New Moon

Friday 5 March 1954360,304 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, March 5, 1954, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.3% of its visible face lit, 29.8 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.3%Illumination at noon UTC
29.8 dMoon age
360,304 km223,883 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (20°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 5, 1954 is on Friday, March 19, 1954 at 12:43 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 5, 1954 at 03:11 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, February 25, 195423:29
New Moon (this day)Friday, March 5, 195403:11
First Quarter (after)Thursday, March 11, 195417:52

The Moon around March 5

More about this date

Friday, March 5, 1954 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 5, 1954 to the new moon of April 3, 1954, a cycle of 29.38 days.