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The Moon on Sunday, March 19, 2006: Waning Gibbous, 82% lit

Waning · 81.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 19°

Moon age

19.5days

Moon phase on March 19, 2006Waning Gibbous

Sunday 19 March 2006393,630 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 19, 2006, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 81.9% of its visible face lit, 19.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

81.9%Illumination at noon UTC
19.5 dMoon age
393,630 km244,590 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (19°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 19, 2006 is on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 23:36 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at 10:15 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, March 14, 200623:36
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, March 22, 200619:11

The Moon around March 19

More about this date

Sunday, March 19, 2006 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 28, 2006 to the new moon of March 29, 2006, a cycle of 29.41 days.