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The Moon on Sunday, January 9, 1983: Waning Crescent, 19% lit

Waning · 18.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 27°

Moon age

25.1days

Moon phase on January 9, 1983Waning Crescent

Sunday 9 January 1983399,063 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 9, 1983, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 18.9% of its visible face lit, 25.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

18.9%Illumination at noon UTC
25.1 dMoon age
399,063 km247,966 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (27°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 9, 1983 is on Thursday, December 30, 1982 at 11:33 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 14, 1983 at 05:08 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, January 6, 198304:00
New Moon (after)Friday, January 14, 198305:08

The Moon around January 9

More about this date

Sunday, January 9, 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.