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The Moon on Saturday, March 25, 1978: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.2% lit · ♎︎ Libra 14°

Moon age

16.4days

Moon phase on March 25, 1978Waning Gibbous

Saturday 25 March 1978379,556 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, March 25, 1978, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.2% of its visible face lit, 16.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.2%Illumination at noon UTC
16.4 dMoon age
379,556 km235,845 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (15°)
31.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 25, 1978 is on Friday, March 24, 1978 at 16:20 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 7, 1978 at 15:15 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, March 24, 197816:20
Last Quarter (after)Friday, March 31, 197815:11

The Moon around March 25

More about this date

Saturday, March 25, 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.