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The Moon on Tuesday, March 23, 2004: Waxing Crescent, 7% lit

Waxing · 6.7% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 03°

Moon age

2.6days

Moon phase on March 23, 2004Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 23 March 2004396,971 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 23, 2004, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 6.7% of its visible face lit, 2.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

6.7%Illumination at noon UTC
2.6 dMoon age
396,971 km246,666 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (3°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 23, 2004 is on Monday, April 5, 2004 at 11:03 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, March 20, 2004 at 22:42 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, March 20, 200422:42
First Quarter (after)Sunday, March 28, 200423:48

The Moon around March 23

More about this date

Tuesday, March 23, 2004 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 20, 2004 to the new moon of April 19, 2004, a cycle of 29.61 days.