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The Moon on Wednesday, January 30, 1985: Waxing Gibbous, 63% lit

Waxing · 63.0% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 25°

Moon age

9.4days

Moon phase on January 30, 1985Waxing Gibbous

Wednesday 30 January 1985398,497 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 30, 1985, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 63.0% of its visible face lit, 9.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

63.0%Illumination at noon UTC
9.4 dMoon age
398,497 km247,615 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (25°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 30, 1985 is on Tuesday, February 5, 1985 at 15:19 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 21, 1985 at 02:28 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, January 29, 198503:29
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, February 5, 198515:19

The Moon around January 30

More about this date

Wednesday, January 30, 1985 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 21, 1985 to the new moon of February 19, 1985, a cycle of 29.68 days.