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The Moon on Thursday, January 26, 1978: Waning Gibbous, 96% lit

Waning · 95.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 00°

Moon age

17.3days

Moon phase on January 26, 1978Waning Gibbous

Thursday 26 January 1978396,631 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, January 26, 1978, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.5% of its visible face lit, 17.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.5%Illumination at noon UTC
17.3 dMoon age
396,631 km246,455 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (1°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 26, 1978 is on Tuesday, January 24, 1978 at 07:56 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, February 7, 1978 at 14:54 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, January 24, 197807:56
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, January 31, 197823:51

The Moon around January 26

More about this date

Thursday, January 26, 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.