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The Moon on Friday, March 13, 1959: Waxing Crescent, 15% lit

Waxing · 14.7% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 07°

Moon age

4.0days

Moon phase on March 13, 1959Waxing Crescent

Friday 13 March 1959404,775 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, March 13, 1959, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 14.7% of its visible face lit, 4.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

14.7%Illumination at noon UTC
4.0 dMoon age
404,775 km251,516 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (7°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 13, 1959 is on Tuesday, March 24, 1959 at 20:03 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, March 9, 1959 at 10:51 UTC, 4 days earlier.

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

The Moon around March 13

More about this date

Friday, March 13, 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.