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The Moon on Wednesday, March 18, 2015: Waning Crescent, 6% lit

Waning · 5.5% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 00°

Moon age

27.5days

Moon phase on March 18, 2015Waning Crescent

Wednesday 18 March 2015359,219 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, March 18, 2015, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.5% of its visible face lit, 27.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.5%Illumination at noon UTC
27.5 dMoon age
359,219 km223,208 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (1°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 18, 2015 is on Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 18:06 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 20, 2015 at 09:36 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, March 13, 201517:48
New Moon (after)Friday, March 20, 201509:36

The Moon around March 18

More about this date

Wednesday, March 18, 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.