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The Moon on Sunday, March 28, 2004: First Quarter, 45% lit

Waxing · 45.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 02°

First Quarter at

23:48UTC

Moon phase on March 28, 2004First Quarter

Sunday 28 March 2004403,581 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 28, 2004, the Moon was a First Quarter: 45.5% of its visible face lit, 7.6 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

45.5%Illumination at noon UTC
7.6 dMoon age
403,581 km250,774 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (3°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 28, 2004 is on Monday, April 5, 2004 at 11:03 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, March 20, 2004 at 22:42 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, March 20, 200422:42
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, March 28, 200423:48
Full Moon (after)Monday, April 5, 200411:03

The Moon around March 28

More about this date

Sunday, March 28, 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.