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The Moon on Saturday, March 29, 1986: Waning Gibbous, 85% lit

Waning · 84.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 24°

Moon age

18.9days

Moon phase on March 29, 1986Waning Gibbous

Saturday 29 March 1986364,495 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, March 29, 1986, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 84.9% of its visible face lit, 18.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

84.9%Illumination at noon UTC
18.9 dMoon age
364,495 km226,486 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (24°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 29, 1986 is on Wednesday, March 26, 1986 at 03:02 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, April 9, 1986 at 06:08 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, March 26, 198603:02
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, April 1, 198619:30

The Moon around March 29

More about this date

Saturday, March 29, 1986 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 10, 1986 to the new moon of April 9, 1986, a cycle of 29.64 days.