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The Moon on Wednesday, January 12, 1983: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 2.6% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 03°

Moon age

28.1days

Moon phase on January 12, 1983Waning Crescent

Wednesday 12 January 1983405,634 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 12, 1983, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 2.6% of its visible face lit, 28.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

2.6%Illumination at noon UTC
28.1 dMoon age
405,634 km252,050 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (3°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 12, 1983 is on Thursday, December 30, 1982 at 11:33 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 14, 1983 at 05:08 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around January 12

More about this date

Wednesday, January 12, 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.