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The Moon on Saturday, March 30, 1985: Waxing Gibbous, 59% lit

Waxing · 58.6% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 19°

Moon age

9.0days

Moon phase on March 30, 1985Waxing Gibbous

Saturday 30 March 1985384,835 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, March 30, 1985, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 58.6% of its visible face lit, 9.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

58.6%Illumination at noon UTC
9.0 dMoon age
384,835 km239,125 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (20°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 30, 1985 is on Friday, April 5, 1985 at 11:32 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, March 21, 1985 at 11:59 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Friday, March 29, 198516:11
Full Moon (after)Friday, April 5, 198511:32

The Moon around March 30

More about this date

Saturday, March 30, 1985 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 21, 1985 to the new moon of April 20, 1985, a cycle of 29.72 days.