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The Moon on Sunday, March 28, 1976: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 4.5% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 13°

Moon age

27.5days

Moon phase on March 28, 1976Waning Crescent

Sunday 28 March 1976403,762 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 28, 1976, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.5% of its visible face lit, 27.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.5%Illumination at noon UTC
27.5 dMoon age
403,762 km250,886 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (14°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 28, 1976 is on Tuesday, March 16, 1976 at 02:53 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, March 30, 1976 at 17:08 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around March 28

More about this date

Sunday, March 28, 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.