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The Moon on Wednesday, March 26, 1997: Waning Gibbous, 95% lit

Waning · 95.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 01°

Moon age

17.4days

Moon phase on March 26, 1997Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 26 March 1997396,098 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, March 26, 1997, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.0% of its visible face lit, 17.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.0%Illumination at noon UTC
17.4 dMoon age
396,098 km246,124 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (2°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 26, 1997 is on Monday, March 24, 1997 at 04:45 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, April 7, 1997 at 11:02 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, March 24, 199704:45
Last Quarter (after)Monday, March 31, 199719:38

The Moon around March 26

More about this date

Wednesday, March 26, 1997 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 9, 1997 to the new moon of April 7, 1997, a cycle of 29.41 days.