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The Moon on Saturday, January 1, 1983: Waning Gibbous, 94% lit

Waning · 93.9% lit · ♌︎ Leo 09°

Moon age

17.1days

Moon phase on January 1, 1983Waning Gibbous

Saturday 1 January 1983359,374 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, January 1, 1983, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 93.9% of its visible face lit, 17.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

93.9%Illumination at noon UTC
17.1 dMoon age
359,374 km223,305 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (9°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 1, 1983 is on Thursday, December 30, 1982 at 11:33 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 14, 1983 at 05:08 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, December 30, 198211:33
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, January 6, 198304:00

The Moon around January 1

More about this date

Saturday, January 1, 1983 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 15, 1982 to the new moon of January 14, 1983, a cycle of 29.83 days.