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The Moon on Sunday, January 14, 1990: Waning Gibbous, 88% lit

Waning · 87.9% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 04°

Moon age

17.4days

Moon phase on January 14, 1990Waning Gibbous

Sunday 14 January 1990388,960 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 14, 1990, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 87.9% of its visible face lit, 17.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

87.9%Illumination at noon UTC
17.4 dMoon age
388,960 km241,688 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (5°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 14, 1990 is on Thursday, January 11, 1990 at 04:57 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 26, 1990 at 19:20 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, January 11, 199004:57
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, January 18, 199021:18

The Moon around January 14

More about this date

Sunday, January 14, 1990 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 28, 1989 to the new moon of January 26, 1990, a cycle of 29.67 days.