Daily lunar detail

March 2005 Moon Calendar

The month opens with a Waning Gibbous and closes with a Last Quarter. 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 3, 2005 at 5:37 PM UTC
New MoonMarch 10, 2005 at 9:10 AM UTC
First QuarterMarch 17, 2005 at 7:19 PM UTC
Full MoonMarch 25, 2005 at 8:59 PM UTC

The lunar story of March 2005

New Moon occurs March 10, 2005. Full Moon occurs March 25, 2005. The first major event is Last Quarter on March 3, 2005, and the month progresses from 74% to 67% 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.