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The Moon on Monday, January 20, 1986: Waxing Gibbous, 73% lit

Waxing · 73.4% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 27°

Moon age

10.0days

Moon phase on January 20, 1986Waxing Gibbous

Monday 20 January 1986404,587 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, January 20, 1986, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 73.4% of its visible face lit, 10.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

73.4%Illumination at noon UTC
10.0 dMoon age
404,587 km251,399 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (28°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 20, 1986 is on Sunday, January 26, 1986 at 00:31 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 10, 1986 at 12:22 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Friday, January 17, 198622:14
Full Moon (after)Sunday, January 26, 198600:31

The Moon around January 20

More about this date

Monday, January 20, 1986 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 10, 1986 to the new moon of February 9, 1986, a cycle of 29.52 days.