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The Moon on Sunday, January 4, 1981: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 3.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 22°

Moon age

27.9days

Moon phase on January 4, 1981Waning Crescent

Sunday 4 January 1981394,379 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 4, 1981, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.5% of its visible face lit, 27.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.5%Illumination at noon UTC
27.9 dMoon age
394,379 km245,056 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (23°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 4, 1981 is on Sunday, December 21, 1980 at 18:08 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 6, 1981 at 07:24 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, December 29, 198006:32
New Moon (after)Tuesday, January 6, 198107:24

The Moon around January 4

More about this date

Sunday, January 4, 1981 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 7, 1980 to the new moon of January 6, 1981, a cycle of 29.70 days.