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The Moon on Tuesday, March 26, 1974: Waxing Crescent, 8% lit

Waxing · 7.6% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 07°

Moon age

2.6days

Moon phase on March 26, 1974Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 26 March 1974381,569 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 26, 1974, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 7.6% of its visible face lit, 2.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

7.6%Illumination at noon UTC
2.6 dMoon age
381,569 km237,096 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (7°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 26, 1974 is on Saturday, April 6, 1974 at 21:00 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, March 23, 1974 at 21:24 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, March 23, 197421:24
First Quarter (after)Sunday, March 31, 197401:44

The Moon around March 26

More about this date

Tuesday, March 26, 1974 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 23, 1974 to the new moon of April 22, 1974, a cycle of 29.54 days.