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The Moon on Saturday, March 27, 2010: Waxing Gibbous, 90% lit

Waxing · 90.4% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 00°

Moon age

11.6days

Moon phase on March 27, 2010Waxing Gibbous

Saturday 27 March 2010362,243 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, March 27, 2010, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 90.4% of its visible face lit, 11.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

90.4%Illumination at noon UTC
11.6 dMoon age
362,243 km225,087 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (1°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 27, 2010 is on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 02:26 UTC, 3 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, March 15, 2010 at 21:01 UTC, 12 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, March 23, 201011:00
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, March 30, 201002:26

The Moon around March 27

More about this date

Saturday, March 27, 2010 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 15, 2010 to the new moon of April 14, 2010, a cycle of 29.64 days.