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The Moon on Saturday, March 14, 1981: Waxing Gibbous, 66% lit

Waxing · 65.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 11°

Moon age

8.1days

Moon phase on March 14, 1981Waxing Gibbous

Saturday 14 March 1981379,734 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, March 14, 1981, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 65.5% of its visible face lit, 8.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

65.5%Illumination at noon UTC
8.1 dMoon age
379,734 km235,955 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (12°)
31.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 14, 1981 is on Friday, March 20, 1981 at 15:23 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 6, 1981 at 10:31 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Friday, March 13, 198101:51
Full Moon (after)Friday, March 20, 198115:23

The Moon around March 14

More about this date

Saturday, March 14, 1981 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 6, 1981 to the new moon of April 4, 1981, a cycle of 29.41 days.