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The Moon on Tuesday, January 11, 1983: Waning Crescent, 6% lit

Waning · 6.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 21°

Moon age

27.1days

Moon phase on January 11, 1983Waning Crescent

Tuesday 11 January 1983404,193 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 11, 1983, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 6.4% of its visible face lit, 27.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

6.4%Illumination at noon UTC
27.1 dMoon age
404,193 km251,154 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (21°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 11, 1983 is on Thursday, December 30, 1982 at 11:33 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 14, 1983 at 05:08 UTC, 3 days later.

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

The Moon around January 11

More about this date

Tuesday, January 11, 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.