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The Moon on Tuesday, March 29, 2005: Waning Gibbous, 86% lit

Waning · 85.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 23°

Moon age

19.1days

Moon phase on March 29, 2005Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 29 March 2005377,970 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 29, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 85.8% of its visible face lit, 19.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

85.8%Illumination at noon UTC
19.1 dMoon age
377,970 km234,859 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (23°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 29, 2005 is on Friday, March 25, 2005 at 20:59 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 8, 2005 at 20:32 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, March 25, 200520:59
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, April 2, 200500:51

The Moon around March 29

More about this date

Tuesday, March 29, 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.