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The Moon on Sunday, January 8, 1978: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.9% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 08°

Moon age

28.8days

Moon phase on January 8, 1978Waning Crescent

Sunday 8 January 1978357,454 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 8, 1978, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.9% of its visible face lit, 28.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.9%Illumination at noon UTC
28.8 dMoon age
357,454 km222,111 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (8°)
33.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 8, 1978 is on Sunday, December 25, 1977 at 12:49 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 9, 1978 at 04:00 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, January 2, 197812:07
New Moon (after)Monday, January 9, 197804:00

The Moon around January 8

More about this date

Sunday, January 8, 1978 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 10, 1977 to the new moon of January 9, 1978, a cycle of 29.44 days.