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The Moon on Thursday, January 2, 1992: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 5.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 14°

Moon age

27.3days

Moon phase on January 2, 1992Waning Crescent

Thursday 2 January 1992401,532 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, January 2, 1992, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.5% of its visible face lit, 27.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.5%Illumination at noon UTC
27.3 dMoon age
401,532 km249,501 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (14°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 2, 1992 is on Saturday, December 21, 1991 at 10:23 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 4, 1992 at 23:10 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, December 28, 199101:55
New Moon (after)Saturday, January 4, 199223:10

The Moon around January 2

More about this date

Thursday, January 2, 1992 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 6, 1991 to the new moon of January 4, 1992, a cycle of 29.80 days.