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The Moon on Sunday, January 17, 1988: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 4.6% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 02°

Moon age

27.7days

Moon phase on January 17, 1988Waning Crescent

Sunday 17 January 1988362,817 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 17, 1988, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.6% of its visible face lit, 27.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.6%Illumination at noon UTC
27.7 dMoon age
362,817 km225,444 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (2°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 17, 1988 is on Monday, January 4, 1988 at 01:41 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 19, 1988 at 05:26 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around January 17

More about this date

Sunday, January 17, 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.