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The Moon on Sunday, March 11, 1956: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 1.4% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 08°

Moon age

28.6days

Moon phase on March 11, 1956Waning Crescent

Sunday 11 March 1956393,330 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 11, 1956, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.4% of its visible face lit, 28.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.4%Illumination at noon UTC
28.6 dMoon age
393,330 km244,404 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (8°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 11, 1956 is on Sunday, February 26, 1956 at 01:42 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, March 12, 1956 at 13:37 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, March 4, 195611:53
New Moon (after)Monday, March 12, 195613:37

The Moon around March 11

More about this date

Sunday, March 11, 1956 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 11, 1956 to the new moon of March 12, 1956, a cycle of 29.67 days.