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The Moon on Tuesday, March 18, 1969: New Moon, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.1% lit · ♈︎ Aries 01°

New Moon at

04:51UTC

Moon phase on March 18, 1969New Moon

Tuesday 18 March 1969380,593 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 18, 1969, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.1% of its visible face lit, 29.8 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.1%Illumination at noon UTC
29.8 dMoon age
380,593 km236,490 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (1°)
31.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 18, 1969 is on Tuesday, March 4, 1969 at 05:17 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, March 18, 1969 at 04:51 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, March 11, 196907:44
New Moon (this day)Tuesday, March 18, 196904:51
First Quarter (after)Wednesday, March 26, 196900:48

The Moon around March 18

More about this date

Tuesday, March 18, 1969 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 18, 1969 to the new moon of April 16, 1969, a cycle of 29.56 days.