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The Moon on Wednesday, March 18, 1981: Waxing Gibbous, 96% lit

Waxing · 95.6% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 03°

Moon age

12.1days

Moon phase on March 18, 1981Waxing Gibbous

Wednesday 18 March 1981394,318 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, March 18, 1981, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 95.6% of its visible face lit, 12.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

95.6%Illumination at noon UTC
12.1 dMoon age
394,318 km245,018 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (3°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 18, 1981 is on Friday, March 20, 1981 at 15:23 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 6, 1981 at 10:31 UTC, 12 days earlier.

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

The Moon around March 18

More about this date

Wednesday, March 18, 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.