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The Moon on Friday, March 28, 1958: First Quarter, 50% lit

Waxing · 50.4% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 07°

First Quarter at

11:19UTC

Moon phase on March 28, 1958First Quarter

Friday 28 March 1958384,346 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, March 28, 1958, the Moon was a First Quarter: 50.4% of its visible face lit, 8.1 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

50.4%Illumination at noon UTC
8.1 dMoon age
384,346 km238,821 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (8°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 28, 1958 is on Friday, April 4, 1958 at 03:45 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, March 20, 1958 at 09:50 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, March 20, 195809:50
First Quarter (this day)Friday, March 28, 195811:19
Full Moon (after)Friday, April 4, 195803:45

The Moon around March 28

More about this date

Friday, March 28, 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.