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The Moon on Wednesday, March 27, 1996: First Quarter, 54% lit

Waxing · 54.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 11°

First Quarter at

01:31UTC

Moon phase on March 27, 1996First Quarter

Wednesday 27 March 1996404,211 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, March 27, 1996, the Moon was a First Quarter: 54.3% of its visible face lit, 8.1 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

54.3%Illumination at noon UTC
8.1 dMoon age
404,211 km251,165 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (12°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 27, 1996 is on Thursday, April 4, 1996 at 00:07 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, March 19, 1996 at 10:45 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, March 19, 199610:45
First Quarter (this day)Wednesday, March 27, 199601:31
Full Moon (after)Thursday, April 4, 199600:07

The Moon around March 27

More about this date

Wednesday, March 27, 1996 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 19, 1996 to the new moon of April 17, 1996, a cycle of 29.50 days.