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The Moon on Friday, March 25, 1988: First Quarter, 53% lit

Waxing · 53.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 08°

First Quarter at

04:42UTC

Moon phase on March 25, 1988First Quarter

Friday 25 March 1988398,456 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, March 25, 1988, the Moon was a First Quarter: 53.1% of its visible face lit, 7.4 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

53.1%Illumination at noon UTC
7.4 dMoon age
398,456 km247,589 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (8°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 25, 1988 is on Saturday, April 2, 1988 at 09:21 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 18, 1988 at 02:02 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, March 18, 198802:02
First Quarter (this day)Friday, March 25, 198804:42
Full Moon (after)Saturday, April 2, 198809:21

The Moon around March 25

More about this date

Friday, March 25, 1988 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 18, 1988 to the new moon of April 16, 1988, a cycle of 29.42 days.