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The Moon on Friday, January 10, 1986: New Moon, 0% lit

Waning · 0.2% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 19°

New Moon at

12:22UTC

Moon phase on January 10, 1986New Moon

Friday 10 January 1986366,807 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 10, 1986, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.2% of its visible face lit, 29.5 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.2%Illumination at noon UTC
29.5 dMoon age
366,807 km227,923 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (20°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 10, 1986 is on Friday, December 27, 1985 at 07:31 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 10, 1986 at 12:22 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, January 3, 198619:47
New Moon (this day)Friday, January 10, 198612:22
First Quarter (after)Friday, January 17, 198622:14

The Moon around January 10

More about this date

Friday, January 10, 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.