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The Moon on Monday, March 3, 2008: Waning Crescent, 19% lit

Waning · 19.3% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 21°

Moon age

25.3days

Moon phase on March 3, 2008Waning Crescent

Monday 3 March 2008392,490 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, March 3, 2008, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 19.3% of its visible face lit, 25.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

19.3%Illumination at noon UTC
25.3 dMoon age
392,490 km243,882 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (21°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 3, 2008 is on Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 03:31 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 7, 2008 at 17:14 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, February 29, 200802:19
New Moon (after)Friday, March 7, 200817:14

The Moon around March 3

More about this date

Monday, March 3, 2008 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 7, 2008 to the new moon of March 7, 2008, a cycle of 29.56 days.