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The Moon on Sunday, March 22, 2015: Waxing Crescent, 6% lit

Waxing · 6.4% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 00°

Moon age

2.1days

Moon phase on March 22, 2015Waxing Crescent

Sunday 22 March 2015364,242 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 22, 2015, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 6.4% of its visible face lit, 2.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

6.4%Illumination at noon UTC
2.1 dMoon age
364,242 km226,329 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (1°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 22, 2015 is on Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 12:06 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 20, 2015 at 09:36 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, March 20, 201509:36
First Quarter (after)Friday, March 27, 201507:43

The Moon around March 22

More about this date

Sunday, March 22, 2015 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 20, 2015 to the new moon of April 18, 2015, a cycle of 29.39 days.