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The Moon on Sunday, March 21, 1976: Waning Gibbous, 64% lit

Waning · 64.0% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 14°

Moon age

20.5days

Moon phase on March 21, 1976Waning Gibbous

Sunday 21 March 1976374,329 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 21, 1976, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 64.0% of its visible face lit, 20.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

64.0%Illumination at noon UTC
20.5 dMoon age
374,329 km232,597 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (15°)
31.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 21, 1976 is on Tuesday, March 16, 1976 at 02:53 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, March 30, 1976 at 17:08 UTC, 9 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, March 16, 197602:53
Last Quarter (after)Monday, March 22, 197618:55

The Moon around March 21

More about this date

Sunday, March 21, 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.