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The Moon on Sunday, January 24, 1982: Waning Crescent, 0% lit

Waning · 0.5% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 26°

Moon age

29.1days

Moon phase on January 24, 1982Waning Crescent

Sunday 24 January 1982398,845 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 24, 1982, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.5% of its visible face lit, 29.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.5%Illumination at noon UTC
29.1 dMoon age
398,845 km247,831 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (26°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 24, 1982 is on Saturday, January 9, 1982 at 19:53 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 25, 1982 at 04:56 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around January 24

More about this date

Sunday, January 24, 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.