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The Moon on Sunday, March 23, 1958: Waxing Crescent, 8% lit

Waxing · 8.3% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 05°

Moon age

3.1days

Moon phase on March 23, 1958Waxing Crescent

Sunday 23 March 1958404,052 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 23, 1958, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 8.3% of its visible face lit, 3.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

8.3%Illumination at noon UTC
3.1 dMoon age
404,052 km251,066 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (6°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 23, 1958 is on Friday, April 4, 1958 at 03:45 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, March 20, 1958 at 09:50 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, March 20, 195809:50
First Quarter (after)Friday, March 28, 195811:19

The Moon around March 23

More about this date

Sunday, March 23, 1958 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 20, 1958 to the new moon of April 19, 1958, a cycle of 29.73 days.