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The Moon on Sunday, March 28, 1954: Waning Crescent, 42% lit

Waning · 41.7% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 17°

Moon age

23.4days

Moon phase on March 28, 1954Waning Crescent

Sunday 28 March 1954385,263 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 28, 1954, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 41.7% of its visible face lit, 23.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

41.7%Illumination at noon UTC
23.4 dMoon age
385,263 km239,391 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (17°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 28, 1954 is on Friday, March 19, 1954 at 12:43 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, April 3, 1954 at 12:25 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, March 27, 195416:14
New Moon (after)Saturday, April 3, 195412:25

The Moon around March 28

More about this date

Sunday, March 28, 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.