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The Moon on Thursday, March 11, 1954: First Quarter, 47% lit

Waxing · 47.4% lit · ♊︎ Gemini 17°

First Quarter at

17:52UTC

Moon phase on March 11, 1954First Quarter

Thursday 11 March 1954376,370 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, March 11, 1954, the Moon was a First Quarter: 47.4% of its visible face lit, 6.4 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

47.4%Illumination at noon UTC
6.4 dMoon age
376,370 km233,865 mi from Earth
♊︎ GeminiMoon sign (17°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 11, 1954 is on Friday, March 19, 1954 at 12:43 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 5, 1954 at 03:11 UTC, 6 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, March 5, 195403:11
First Quarter (this day)Thursday, March 11, 195417:52
Full Moon (after)Friday, March 19, 195412:43

The Moon around March 11

More about this date

Thursday, March 11, 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.