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The Moon on Wednesday, January 20, 1993: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 5.0% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 04°

Moon age

27.5days

Moon phase on January 20, 1993Waning Crescent

Wednesday 20 January 1993394,548 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 20, 1993, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.0% of its visible face lit, 27.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.0%Illumination at noon UTC
27.5 dMoon age
394,548 km245,161 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (5°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 20, 1993 is on Friday, January 8, 1993 at 12:37 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 22, 1993 at 18:27 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, January 15, 199304:01
New Moon (after)Friday, January 22, 199318:27

The Moon around January 20

More about this date

Wednesday, January 20, 1993 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 24, 1992 to the new moon of January 22, 1993, a cycle of 29.74 days.