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The Moon on Tuesday, March 20, 1984: Waning Gibbous, 87% lit

Waning · 86.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 12°

Moon age

17.7days

Moon phase on March 20, 1984Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 20 March 1984368,817 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 20, 1984, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 86.8% of its visible face lit, 17.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

86.8%Illumination at noon UTC
17.7 dMoon age
368,817 km229,172 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (13°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 20, 1984 is on Saturday, March 17, 1984 at 10:10 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, April 1, 1984 at 12:10 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, March 17, 198410:10
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, March 24, 198407:58

The Moon around March 20

More about this date

Tuesday, March 20, 1984 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 2, 1984 to the new moon of April 1, 1984, a cycle of 29.74 days.