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The Moon on Wednesday, March 28, 1973: Waning Crescent, 36% lit

Waning · 35.8% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 24°

Moon age

23.5days

Moon phase on March 28, 1973Waning Crescent

Wednesday 28 March 1973398,240 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, March 28, 1973, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 35.8% of its visible face lit, 23.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

35.8%Illumination at noon UTC
23.5 dMoon age
398,240 km247,455 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (24°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 28, 1973 is on Sunday, March 18, 1973 at 23:34 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, April 3, 1973 at 11:45 UTC, 6 days later.

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

The Moon around March 28

More about this date

Wednesday, March 28, 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.