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The Moon on Sunday, January 1, 1984: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 3.0% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 20°

Moon age

28.0days

Moon phase on January 1, 1984Waning Crescent

Sunday 1 January 1984391,628 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 1, 1984, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.0% of its visible face lit, 28.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.0%Illumination at noon UTC
28.0 dMoon age
391,628 km243,346 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (20°)
30.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 1, 1984 is on Tuesday, December 20, 1983 at 02:00 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 3, 1984 at 05:16 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, December 26, 198318:53
New Moon (after)Tuesday, January 3, 198405:16

The Moon around January 1

More about this date

Sunday, January 1, 1984 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 4, 1983 to the new moon of January 3, 1984, a cycle of 29.70 days.