Skip to content
The Moon on Tuesday, March 15, 1983: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 0.8% lit · ♈︎ Aries 03°

Moon age

0.8days

Moon phase on March 15, 1983Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 15 March 1983393,649 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 15, 1983, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.8% of its visible face lit, 0.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.8%Illumination at noon UTC
0.8 dMoon age
393,649 km244,602 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (3°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 15, 1983 is on Monday, March 28, 1983 at 19:27 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, March 14, 1983 at 17:44 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, March 14, 198317:44
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, March 22, 198302:26

The Moon around March 15

More about this date

Tuesday, March 15, 1983 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 14, 1983 to the new moon of April 13, 1983, a cycle of 29.59 days.