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The Moon on Sunday, January 17, 1982: Waning Crescent, 45% lit

Waning · 45.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 02°

Moon age

22.1days

Moon phase on January 17, 1982Waning Crescent

Sunday 17 January 1982400,162 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 17, 1982, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 45.3% of its visible face lit, 22.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

45.3%Illumination at noon UTC
22.1 dMoon age
400,162 km248,649 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (3°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 17, 1982 is on Saturday, January 9, 1982 at 19:53 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 25, 1982 at 04:56 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, January 16, 198223:58
New Moon (after)Monday, January 25, 198204:56

The Moon around January 17

More about this date

Sunday, January 17, 1982 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 26, 1981 to the new moon of January 25, 1982, a cycle of 29.78 days.