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The Moon on Friday, March 30, 1956: Waning Gibbous, 84% lit

Waning · 83.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 27°

Moon age

17.9days

Moon phase on March 30, 1956Waning Gibbous

Friday 30 March 1956395,174 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, March 30, 1956, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 83.7% of its visible face lit, 17.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

83.7%Illumination at noon UTC
17.9 dMoon age
395,174 km245,550 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (27°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 30, 1956 is on Monday, March 26, 1956 at 13:11 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, April 11, 1956 at 02:39 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, March 26, 195613:11
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, April 3, 195608:06

The Moon around March 30

More about this date

Friday, March 30, 1956 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 12, 1956 to the new moon of April 11, 1956, a cycle of 29.54 days.