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The Moon on Sunday, January 22, 1978: Waxing Gibbous, 97% lit

Waxing · 96.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 11°

Moon age

13.3days

Moon phase on January 22, 1978Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 22 January 1978405,277 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 22, 1978, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 96.8% of its visible face lit, 13.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

96.8%Illumination at noon UTC
13.3 dMoon age
405,277 km251,827 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (12°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 22, 1978 is on Tuesday, January 24, 1978 at 07:56 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 9, 1978 at 04:00 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, January 16, 197803:03
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, January 24, 197807:56

The Moon around January 22

More about this date

Sunday, January 22, 1978 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 9, 1978 to the new moon of February 7, 1978, a cycle of 29.45 days.