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The Moon on Sunday, March 19, 1978: Waxing Gibbous, 75% lit

Waxing · 74.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 28°

Moon age

10.4days

Moon phase on March 19, 1978Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 19 March 1978402,180 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 19, 1978, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 74.9% of its visible face lit, 10.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

74.9%Illumination at noon UTC
10.4 dMoon age
402,180 km249,903 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (28°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 19, 1978 is on Friday, March 24, 1978 at 16:20 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, March 9, 1978 at 02:36 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, March 16, 197818:21
Full Moon (after)Friday, March 24, 197816:20

The Moon around March 19

More about this date

Sunday, March 19, 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.