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The Moon on Friday, January 27, 1995: Waning Crescent, 16% lit

Waning · 15.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 20°

Moon age

26.0days

Moon phase on January 27, 1995Waning Crescent

Friday 27 January 1995366,002 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 27, 1995, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 15.7% of its visible face lit, 26.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

15.7%Illumination at noon UTC
26.0 dMoon age
366,002 km227,423 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (21°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 27, 1995 is on Monday, January 16, 1995 at 20:27 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 30, 1995 at 22:48 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, January 24, 199504:58
New Moon (after)Monday, January 30, 199522:48

The Moon around January 27

More about this date

Friday, January 27, 1995 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 1, 1995 to the new moon of January 30, 1995, a cycle of 29.49 days.