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The Moon on Wednesday, January 16, 1985: Waning Crescent, 23% lit

Waning · 23.1% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 28°

Moon age

25.0days

Moon phase on January 16, 1985Waning Crescent

Wednesday 16 January 1985374,182 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 16, 1985, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 23.1% of its visible face lit, 25.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

23.1%Illumination at noon UTC
25.0 dMoon age
374,182 km232,506 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (29°)
31.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 16, 1985 is on Monday, January 7, 1985 at 02:16 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 21, 1985 at 02:28 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, January 13, 198523:27
New Moon (after)Monday, January 21, 198502:28

The Moon around January 16

More about this date

Wednesday, January 16, 1985 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 22, 1984 to the new moon of January 21, 1985, a cycle of 29.61 days.