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The Moon on Wednesday, March 11, 2015: Waning Gibbous, 72% lit

Waning · 72.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 23°

Moon age

20.5days

Moon phase on March 11, 2015Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 11 March 2015393,543 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, March 11, 2015, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 72.5% of its visible face lit, 20.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

72.5%Illumination at noon UTC
20.5 dMoon age
393,543 km244,536 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (24°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 11, 2015 is on Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 18:06 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 20, 2015 at 09:36 UTC, 9 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, March 5, 201518:06
Last Quarter (after)Friday, March 13, 201517:48

The Moon around March 11

More about this date

Wednesday, March 11, 2015 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 18, 2015 to the new moon of March 20, 2015, a cycle of 29.41 days.