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The Moon on Wednesday, March 11, 1959: Waxing Crescent, 4% lit

Waxing · 4.0% lit · ♈︎ Aries 13°

Moon age

2.0days

Moon phase on March 11, 1959Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 11 March 1959401,272 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, March 11, 1959, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 4.0% of its visible face lit, 2.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

4.0%Illumination at noon UTC
2.0 dMoon age
401,272 km249,339 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (13°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 11, 1959 is on Tuesday, March 24, 1959 at 20:03 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, March 9, 1959 at 10:51 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, March 9, 195910:51
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, March 17, 195915:10

The Moon around March 11

More about this date

Wednesday, March 11, 1959 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 9, 1959 to the new moon of April 8, 1959, a cycle of 29.69 days.