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The Moon on Tuesday, March 29, 2011: Waning Crescent, 22% lit

Waning · 22.0% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 12°

Moon age

24.6days

Moon phase on March 29, 2011Waning Crescent

Tuesday 29 March 2011400,656 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 29, 2011, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 22.0% of its visible face lit, 24.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

22.0%Illumination at noon UTC
24.6 dMoon age
400,656 km248,956 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (13°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 29, 2011 is on Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 18:10 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, April 3, 2011 at 14:33 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, March 26, 201112:08
New Moon (after)Sunday, April 3, 201114:33

The Moon around March 29

More about this date

Tuesday, March 29, 2011 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 4, 2011 to the new moon of April 3, 2011, a cycle of 29.74 days.