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The Moon on Sunday, March 9, 1969: Waning Gibbous, 70% lit

Waning · 70.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 24°

Moon age

20.8days

Moon phase on March 9, 1969Waning Gibbous

Sunday 9 March 1969372,669 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 9, 1969, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 70.3% of its visible face lit, 20.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

70.3%Illumination at noon UTC
20.8 dMoon age
372,669 km231,566 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (25°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 9, 1969 is on Tuesday, March 4, 1969 at 05:17 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, March 18, 1969 at 04:51 UTC, 9 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, March 4, 196905:17
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, March 11, 196907:44

The Moon around March 9

More about this date

Sunday, March 9, 1969 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 16, 1969 to the new moon of March 18, 1969, a cycle of 29.52 days.