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The Moon on Tuesday, March 3, 1981: Waning Crescent, 11% lit

Waning · 10.8% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 04°

Moon age

26.6days

Moon phase on March 3, 1981Waning Crescent

Tuesday 3 March 1981379,670 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 3, 1981, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 10.8% of its visible face lit, 26.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

10.8%Illumination at noon UTC
26.6 dMoon age
379,670 km235,916 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (5°)
31.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 3, 1981 is on Wednesday, February 18, 1981 at 22:58 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 6, 1981 at 10:31 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, February 27, 198101:14
New Moon (after)Friday, March 6, 198110:31

The Moon around March 3

More about this date

Tuesday, March 3, 1981 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 4, 1981 to the new moon of March 6, 1981, a cycle of 29.51 days.