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The Moon on Wednesday, January 8, 1986: Waning Crescent, 6% lit

Waning · 5.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 20°

Moon age

27.5days

Moon phase on January 8, 1986Waning Crescent

Wednesday 8 January 1986363,321 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 8, 1986, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.8% of its visible face lit, 27.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.8%Illumination at noon UTC
27.5 dMoon age
363,321 km225,757 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (20°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 8, 1986 is on Friday, December 27, 1985 at 07:31 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 10, 1986 at 12:22 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, January 3, 198619:47
New Moon (after)Friday, January 10, 198612:22

The Moon around January 8

More about this date

Wednesday, January 8, 1986 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 12, 1985 to the new moon of January 10, 1986, a cycle of 29.48 days.