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The Moon on Sunday, January 11, 1998: Waxing Gibbous, 98% lit

Waxing · 98.2% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 06°

Moon age

12.8days

Moon phase on January 11, 1998Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 11 January 1998384,419 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 11, 1998, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 98.2% of its visible face lit, 12.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

98.2%Illumination at noon UTC
12.8 dMoon age
384,419 km238,867 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (6°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 11, 1998 is on Monday, January 12, 1998 at 17:24 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 29, 1997 at 16:57 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, January 5, 199814:18
Full Moon (after)Monday, January 12, 199817:24

The Moon around January 11

More about this date

Sunday, January 11, 1998 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 29, 1997 to the new moon of January 28, 1998, a cycle of 29.54 days.