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The Moon on Sunday, March 15, 1981: Waxing Gibbous, 75% lit

Waxing · 75.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 25°

Moon age

9.1days

Moon phase on March 15, 1981Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 15 March 1981383,674 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 15, 1981, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 75.3% of its visible face lit, 9.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

75.3%Illumination at noon UTC
9.1 dMoon age
383,674 km238,404 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (25°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 15, 1981 is on Friday, March 20, 1981 at 15:23 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 6, 1981 at 10:31 UTC, 9 days earlier.

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

The Moon around March 15

More about this date

Sunday, March 15, 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.