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The Moon on Friday, January 31, 1997: Last Quarter, 53% lit

Waning · 53.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 07°

Last Quarter at

19:40UTC

Moon phase on January 31, 1997Last Quarter

Friday 31 January 1997391,109 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 31, 1997, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 53.4% of its visible face lit, 22.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

53.4%Illumination at noon UTC
22.3 dMoon age
391,109 km243,024 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (8°)
30.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 31, 1997 is on Thursday, January 23, 1997 at 15:11 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, February 7, 1997 at 15:06 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, January 23, 199715:11
Last Quarter (this day)Friday, January 31, 199719:40
New Moon (after)Friday, February 7, 199715:06

The Moon around January 31

More about this date

Friday, January 31, 1997 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 9, 1997 to the new moon of February 7, 1997, a cycle of 29.44 days.