Skip to content
The Moon on Monday, March 17, 1969: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.6% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 17°

Moon age

28.8days

Moon phase on March 17, 1969Waning Crescent

Monday 17 March 1969376,803 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, March 17, 1969, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.6% of its visible face lit, 28.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.6%Illumination at noon UTC
28.8 dMoon age
376,803 km234,135 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (18°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 17, 1969 is on Tuesday, March 4, 1969 at 05:17 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, March 18, 1969 at 04:51 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, March 11, 196907:44
New Moon (after)Tuesday, March 18, 196904:51

The Moon around March 17

More about this date

Monday, March 17, 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.