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The Moon on Sunday, January 18, 1998: Waning Gibbous, 71% lit

Waning · 71.3% lit · ♎︎ Libra 03°

Moon age

19.8days

Moon phase on January 18, 1998Waning Gibbous

Sunday 18 January 1998404,543 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 18, 1998, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 71.3% of its visible face lit, 19.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

71.3%Illumination at noon UTC
19.8 dMoon age
404,543 km251,372 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (3°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 18, 1998 is on Monday, January 12, 1998 at 17:24 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, January 28, 1998 at 06:01 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, January 12, 199817:24
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, January 20, 199819:40

The Moon around January 18

More about this date

Sunday, January 18, 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.