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The Moon on Sunday, January 20, 1985: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.5% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 23°

Moon age

29.0days

Moon phase on January 20, 1985Waning Crescent

Sunday 20 January 1985385,492 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 20, 1985, 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
385,492 km239,533 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (23°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 20, 1985 is on Monday, January 7, 1985 at 02:16 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 21, 1985 at 02:28 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around January 20

More about this date

Sunday, January 20, 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.