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The Moon on Thursday, March 27, 1969: Waxing Gibbous, 64% lit

Waxing · 63.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 22°

Moon age

9.3days

Moon phase on March 27, 1969Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 27 March 1969402,392 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, March 27, 1969, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 63.9% of its visible face lit, 9.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

63.9%Illumination at noon UTC
9.3 dMoon age
402,392 km250,035 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (23°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 27, 1969 is on Wednesday, April 2, 1969 at 18:45 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, March 18, 1969 at 04:51 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Wednesday, March 26, 196900:48
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, April 2, 196918:45

The Moon around March 27

More about this date

Thursday, March 27, 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.