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The Moon on Tuesday, March 22, 1983: First Quarter, 55% lit

Waxing · 54.6% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 06°

First Quarter at

02:26UTC

Moon phase on March 22, 1983First Quarter

Tuesday 22 March 1983370,855 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 22, 1983, the Moon was a First Quarter: 54.6% of its visible face lit, 7.8 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

54.6%Illumination at noon UTC
7.8 dMoon age
370,855 km230,438 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (6°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 22, 1983 is on Monday, March 28, 1983 at 19:27 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, March 14, 1983 at 17:44 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, March 14, 198317:44
First Quarter (this day)Tuesday, March 22, 198302:26
Full Moon (after)Monday, March 28, 198319:27

The Moon around March 22

More about this date

Tuesday, March 22, 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.