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The Moon on Friday, January 15, 1988: Waning Crescent, 19% lit

Waning · 18.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 03°

Moon age

25.7days

Moon phase on January 15, 1988Waning Crescent

Friday 15 January 1988373,640 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 15, 1988, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 18.8% of its visible face lit, 25.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

18.8%Illumination at noon UTC
25.7 dMoon age
373,640 km232,169 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (3°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 15, 1988 is on Monday, January 4, 1988 at 01:41 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 19, 1988 at 05:26 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, January 12, 198807:04
New Moon (after)Tuesday, January 19, 198805:26

The Moon around January 15

More about this date

Friday, January 15, 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.