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The Moon on Thursday, March 22, 2007: Waxing Crescent, 16% lit

Waxing · 16.4% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 19°

Moon age

3.4days

Moon phase on March 22, 2007Waxing Crescent

Thursday 22 March 2007364,298 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, March 22, 2007, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 16.4% of its visible face lit, 3.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

16.4%Illumination at noon UTC
3.4 dMoon age
364,298 km226,364 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (19°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 22, 2007 is on Monday, April 2, 2007 at 17:15 UTC, 11 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, March 19, 2007 at 02:43 UTC, 3 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, March 19, 200702:43
First Quarter (after)Sunday, March 25, 200718:16

The Moon around March 22

More about this date

Thursday, March 22, 2007 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 19, 2007 to the new moon of April 17, 2007, a cycle of 29.37 days.