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The Moon on Thursday, March 28, 1957: Waning Crescent, 8% lit

Waning · 7.8% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 05°

Moon age

26.8days

Moon phase on March 28, 1957Waning Crescent

Thursday 28 March 1957404,876 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, March 28, 1957, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 7.8% of its visible face lit, 26.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

7.8%Illumination at noon UTC
26.8 dMoon age
404,876 km251,578 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (5°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 28, 1957 is on Saturday, March 16, 1957 at 02:22 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, March 31, 1957 at 09:19 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, March 23, 195705:05
New Moon (after)Sunday, March 31, 195709:19

The Moon around March 28

More about this date

Thursday, March 28, 1957 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 1, 1957 to the new moon of March 31, 1957, a cycle of 29.71 days.