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The Moon on Sunday, March 14, 1976: Waxing Gibbous, 96% lit

Waxing · 95.9% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 01°

Moon age

13.5days

Moon phase on March 14, 1976Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 14 March 1976362,630 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 14, 1976, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 95.9% of its visible face lit, 13.5 days after the new moon and growing each night.

95.9%Illumination at noon UTC
13.5 dMoon age
362,630 km225,328 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (1°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 14, 1976 is on Tuesday, March 16, 1976 at 02:53 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, February 29, 1976 at 23:25 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, March 9, 197604:38
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, March 16, 197602:53

The Moon around March 14

More about this date

Sunday, March 14, 1976 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 29, 1976 to the new moon of March 30, 1976, a cycle of 29.74 days.