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The Moon on Tuesday, March 13, 2012: Waning Gibbous, 67% lit

Waning · 67.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 03°

Moon age

20.6days

Moon phase on March 13, 2012Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 13 March 2012368,390 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 13, 2012, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 67.4% of its visible face lit, 20.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

67.4%Illumination at noon UTC
20.6 dMoon age
368,390 km228,907 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (3°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 13, 2012 is on Thursday, March 8, 2012 at 09:40 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, March 22, 2012 at 14:37 UTC, 9 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, March 8, 201209:40
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, March 15, 201201:25

The Moon around March 13

More about this date

Tuesday, March 13, 2012 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 21, 2012 to the new moon of March 22, 2012, a cycle of 29.67 days.