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The Moon on Sunday, January 7, 1996: Waning Gibbous, 97% lit

Waning · 97.5% lit · ♌︎ Leo 04°

Moon age

16.4days

Moon phase on January 7, 1996Waning Gibbous

Sunday 7 January 1996405,217 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 7, 1996, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 97.5% of its visible face lit, 16.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

97.5%Illumination at noon UTC
16.4 dMoon age
405,217 km251,790 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (4°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 7, 1996 is on Friday, January 5, 1996 at 20:51 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 20, 1996 at 12:50 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, January 5, 199620:51
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, January 13, 199620:45

The Moon around January 7

More about this date

Sunday, January 7, 1996 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 22, 1995 to the new moon of January 20, 1996, a cycle of 29.44 days.