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The Moon on Saturday, March 23, 2019: Waning Gibbous, 92% lit

Waning · 91.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 05°

Moon age

16.8days

Moon phase on March 23, 2019Waning Gibbous

Saturday 23 March 2019370,586 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, March 23, 2019, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 91.7% of its visible face lit, 16.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

91.7%Illumination at noon UTC
16.8 dMoon age
370,586 km230,271 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (6°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 23, 2019 is on Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 01:43 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 5, 2019 at 08:51 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, March 21, 201901:43
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, March 28, 201904:10

The Moon around March 23

More about this date

Saturday, March 23, 2019 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 6, 2019 to the new moon of April 5, 2019, a cycle of 29.70 days.