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The Moon on Wednesday, March 22, 1972: First Quarter, 55% lit

Waxing · 54.6% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 07°

First Quarter at

02:12UTC

Moon phase on March 22, 1972First Quarter

Wednesday 22 March 1972378,892 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, March 22, 1972, the Moon was a First Quarter: 54.6% of its visible face lit, 7.0 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

54.6%Illumination at noon UTC
7.0 dMoon age
378,892 km235,433 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (7°)
31.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 22, 1972 is on Wednesday, March 29, 1972 at 20:06 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, March 15, 1972 at 11:35 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Wednesday, March 15, 197211:35
First Quarter (this day)Wednesday, March 22, 197202:12
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, March 29, 197220:06

The Moon around March 22

More about this date

Wednesday, March 22, 1972 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 15, 1972 to the new moon of April 13, 1972, a cycle of 29.37 days.