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The Moon on Sunday, March 12, 1978: Waxing Crescent, 13% lit

Waxing · 13.0% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 03°

Moon age

3.4days

Moon phase on March 12, 1978Waxing Crescent

Sunday 12 March 1978389,334 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 12, 1978, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 13.0% of its visible face lit, 3.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

13.0%Illumination at noon UTC
3.4 dMoon age
389,334 km241,921 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (4°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 12, 1978 is on Friday, March 24, 1978 at 16:20 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, March 9, 1978 at 02:36 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, March 9, 197802:36
First Quarter (after)Thursday, March 16, 197818:21

The Moon around March 12

More about this date

Sunday, March 12, 1978 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 9, 1978 to the new moon of April 7, 1978, a cycle of 29.53 days.