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The Moon on Sunday, March 13, 2005: Waxing Crescent, 12% lit

Waxing · 11.9% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 03°

Moon age

3.1days

Moon phase on March 13, 2005Waxing Crescent

Sunday 13 March 2005381,724 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 13, 2005, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 11.9% of its visible face lit, 3.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

11.9%Illumination at noon UTC
3.1 dMoon age
381,724 km237,192 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (3°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 13, 2005 is on Friday, March 25, 2005 at 20:59 UTC, 12 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, March 10, 2005 at 09:10 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Thursday, March 10, 200509:10
First Quarter (after)Thursday, March 17, 200519:19

The Moon around March 13

More about this date

Sunday, March 13, 2005 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 10, 2005 to the new moon of April 8, 2005, a cycle of 29.47 days.