Daily lunar detail

March 1823 Moon Calendar

The month opens with a Waning Gibbous and closes with a Waning Gibbous. It contains 4 exact major phase events.

Icons use the common Northern Hemisphere convention: waxing light on the right, waning light on the left. Your sky may appear rotated at other latitudes.

Last QuarterMarch 4, 1823 at 7:01 PM UTC
New MoonMarch 12, 1823 at 6:43 PM UTC
First QuarterMarch 19, 1823 at 6:27 PM UTC
Full MoonMarch 26, 1823 at 5:47 PM UTC

The lunar story of March 1823

New Moon occurs March 12, 1823. Full Moon occurs March 26, 1823. The first major event is Last Quarter on March 4, 1823, and the month progresses from 80% to 78% illumination at noon UTC on its boundary dates.

Choosing a day

Select any Moon to open its precise phase angle, illuminated fraction, elapsed age since New Moon, trend, and neighboring event. Date result pages remain shareable but are excluded from search indexing.

Questions, answered

Frequently asked questions

What time are daily phases calculated?

12:00 UTC, chosen deliberately to keep date-only selections stable worldwide.

Why can a local phase event fall on another date?

An event near 00:00 UTC may occur on the previous local date west of Greenwich or the next local date east of it.

Do the icons show sky orientation?

They use a Northern Hemisphere convention; actual orientation rotates with latitude and viewing angle.