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The Moon on Sunday, March 29, 1959: Waning Gibbous, 72% lit

Waning · 71.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 12°

Moon age

20.0days

Moon phase on March 29, 1959Waning Gibbous

Sunday 29 March 1959367,517 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 29, 1959, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 71.7% of its visible face lit, 20.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

71.7%Illumination at noon UTC
20.0 dMoon age
367,517 km228,364 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (12°)
32.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 29, 1959 is on Tuesday, March 24, 1959 at 20:03 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, April 8, 1959 at 03:29 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, March 24, 195920:03
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, March 31, 195911:07

The Moon around March 29

More about this date

Sunday, March 29, 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.