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The Moon on Wednesday, March 26, 1969: First Quarter, 55% lit

Waxing · 54.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 10°

First Quarter at

00:48UTC

Moon phase on March 26, 1969First Quarter

Wednesday 26 March 1969403,981 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, March 26, 1969, the Moon was a First Quarter: 54.5% of its visible face lit, 8.3 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

54.5%Illumination at noon UTC
8.3 dMoon age
403,981 km251,022 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (11°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 26, 1969 is on Wednesday, April 2, 1969 at 18:45 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, March 18, 1969 at 04:51 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, March 18, 196904:51
First Quarter (this day)Wednesday, March 26, 196900:48
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, April 2, 196918:45

The Moon around March 26

More about this date

Wednesday, March 26, 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.