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The Moon on Tuesday, March 4, 2008: Waning Crescent, 12% lit

Waning · 11.9% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 04°

Moon age

26.3days

Moon phase on March 4, 2008Waning Crescent

Tuesday 4 March 2008387,457 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 4, 2008, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 11.9% of its visible face lit, 26.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

11.9%Illumination at noon UTC
26.3 dMoon age
387,457 km240,755 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (4°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 4, 2008 is on Thursday, February 21, 2008 at 03:31 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 7, 2008 at 17:14 UTC, 3 days later.

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

The Moon around March 4

More about this date

Tuesday, March 4, 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.