Skip to content
The Moon on Thursday, March 25, 1976: Waning Crescent, 24% lit

Waning · 23.6% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 07°

Moon age

24.5days

Moon phase on March 25, 1976Waning Crescent

Thursday 25 March 1976394,898 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, March 25, 1976, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 23.6% of its visible face lit, 24.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

23.6%Illumination at noon UTC
24.5 dMoon age
394,898 km245,378 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (7°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 25, 1976 is on Tuesday, March 16, 1976 at 02:53 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, March 30, 1976 at 17:08 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, March 22, 197618:55
New Moon (after)Tuesday, March 30, 197617:08

The Moon around March 25

More about this date

Thursday, March 25, 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.