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The Moon on Tuesday, March 22, 1955: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 3.7% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 09°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on March 22, 1955Waning Crescent

Tuesday 22 March 1955375,471 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 22, 1955, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.7% of its visible face lit, 27.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.7%Illumination at noon UTC
27.8 dMoon age
375,471 km233,307 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (9°)
31.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 22, 1955 is on Tuesday, March 8, 1955 at 15:41 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, March 24, 1955 at 03:43 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, March 16, 195516:36
New Moon (after)Thursday, March 24, 195503:43

The Moon around March 22

More about this date

Tuesday, March 22, 1955 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 22, 1955 to the new moon of March 24, 1955, a cycle of 29.49 days.