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The Moon on Tuesday, January 17, 1984: Waxing Gibbous, 98% lit

Waxing · 98.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 11°

Moon age

14.3days

Moon phase on January 17, 1984Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 17 January 1984364,593 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 17, 1984, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 98.3% of its visible face lit, 14.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

98.3%Illumination at noon UTC
14.3 dMoon age
364,593 km226,547 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (12°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 17, 1984 is on Wednesday, January 18, 1984 at 14:05 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 3, 1984 at 05:16 UTC, 14 days earlier.

The Moon around January 17

More about this date

Tuesday, January 17, 1984 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 3, 1984 to the new moon of February 1, 1984, a cycle of 29.77 days.