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The Moon on Tuesday, March 27, 1973: Waning Crescent, 45% lit

Waning · 45.3% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 12°

Moon age

22.5days

Moon phase on March 27, 1973Waning Crescent

Tuesday 27 March 1973401,501 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 27, 1973, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 45.3% of its visible face lit, 22.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

45.3%Illumination at noon UTC
22.5 dMoon age
401,501 km249,481 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (12°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 27, 1973 is on Sunday, March 18, 1973 at 23:34 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, April 3, 1973 at 11:45 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, March 26, 197323:46
New Moon (after)Tuesday, April 3, 197311:45

The Moon around March 27

More about this date

Tuesday, March 27, 1973 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 5, 1973 to the new moon of April 3, 1973, a cycle of 29.48 days.