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The Moon on Sunday, March 30, 1997: Waning Gibbous, 64% lit

Waning · 64.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 23°

Moon age

21.4days

Moon phase on March 30, 1997Waning Gibbous

Sunday 30 March 1997381,052 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 30, 1997, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 64.4% of its visible face lit, 21.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

64.4%Illumination at noon UTC
21.4 dMoon age
381,052 km236,775 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (23°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 30, 1997 is on Monday, March 24, 1997 at 04:45 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, April 7, 1997 at 11:02 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, March 24, 199704:45
Last Quarter (after)Monday, March 31, 199719:38

The Moon around March 30

More about this date

Sunday, March 30, 1997 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 9, 1997 to the new moon of April 7, 1997, a cycle of 29.41 days.