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The Moon on Friday, January 8, 1988: Waning Gibbous, 83% lit

Waning · 83.4% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 05°

Moon age

18.7days

Moon phase on January 8, 1988Waning Gibbous

Friday 8 January 1988405,244 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 8, 1988, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 83.4% of its visible face lit, 18.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

83.4%Illumination at noon UTC
18.7 dMoon age
405,244 km251,807 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (6°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 8, 1988 is on Monday, January 4, 1988 at 01:41 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 19, 1988 at 05:26 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, January 4, 198801:41
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, January 12, 198807:04

The Moon around January 8

More about this date

Friday, January 8, 1988 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 20, 1987 to the new moon of January 19, 1988, a cycle of 29.46 days.