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The Moon on Tuesday, March 29, 1966: First Quarter, 46% lit

Waxing · 46.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 03°

First Quarter at

20:43UTC

Moon phase on March 29, 1966First Quarter

Tuesday 29 March 1966376,978 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 29, 1966, the Moon was a First Quarter: 46.1% of its visible face lit, 7.3 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

46.1%Illumination at noon UTC
7.3 dMoon age
376,978 km234,243 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (4°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 29, 1966 is on Tuesday, April 5, 1966 at 11:13 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, March 22, 1966 at 04:46 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, March 22, 196604:46
First Quarter (this day)Tuesday, March 29, 196620:43
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, April 5, 196611:13

The Moon around March 29

More about this date

Tuesday, March 29, 1966 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 22, 1966 to the new moon of April 20, 1966, a cycle of 29.66 days.