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The Moon on Thursday, March 19, 1959: Waxing Gibbous, 68% lit

Waxing · 68.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 19°

Moon age

10.0days

Moon phase on March 19, 1959Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 19 March 1959390,074 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, March 19, 1959, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 68.3% of its visible face lit, 10.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

68.3%Illumination at noon UTC
10.0 dMoon age
390,074 km242,381 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (20°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 19, 1959 is on Tuesday, March 24, 1959 at 20:03 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, March 9, 1959 at 10:51 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, March 17, 195915:10
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, March 24, 195920:03

The Moon around March 19

More about this date

Thursday, March 19, 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.