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The Moon on Tuesday, January 12, 1999: Waning Crescent, 24% lit

Waning · 24.1% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 23°

Moon age

24.6days

Moon phase on January 12, 1999Waning Crescent

Tuesday 12 January 1999404,196 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 12, 1999, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 24.1% of its visible face lit, 24.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

24.1%Illumination at noon UTC
24.6 dMoon age
404,196 km251,156 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (23°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 12, 1999 is on Saturday, January 2, 1999 at 02:50 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 17, 1999 at 15:46 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, January 9, 199914:22
New Moon (after)Sunday, January 17, 199915:46

The Moon around January 12

More about this date

Tuesday, January 12, 1999 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 18, 1998 to the new moon of January 17, 1999, a cycle of 29.71 days.