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The Moon on Monday, January 2, 1984: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.5% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 03°

Moon age

29.0days

Moon phase on January 2, 1984Waning Crescent

Monday 2 January 1984394,865 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, January 2, 1984, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.5% of its visible face lit, 29.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.5%Illumination at noon UTC
29.0 dMoon age
394,865 km245,358 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (3°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 2, 1984 is on Tuesday, December 20, 1983 at 02:00 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 3, 1984 at 05:16 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around January 2

More about this date

Monday, January 2, 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.