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The Moon on Friday, March 30, 1962: Waning Crescent, 36% lit

Waning · 35.7% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 26°

Moon age

24.1days

Moon phase on March 30, 1962Waning Crescent

Friday 30 March 1962372,662 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, March 30, 1962, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 35.7% of its visible face lit, 24.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

35.7%Illumination at noon UTC
24.1 dMoon age
372,662 km231,561 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (26°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 30, 1962 is on Wednesday, March 21, 1962 at 07:56 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, April 4, 1962 at 19:45 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, March 29, 196204:11
New Moon (after)Wednesday, April 4, 196219:45

The Moon around March 30

More about this date

Friday, March 30, 1962 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 6, 1962 to the new moon of April 4, 1962, a cycle of 29.38 days.