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The Moon on Saturday, January 16, 1999: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 1.5% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 12°

Moon age

28.6days

Moon phase on January 16, 1999Waning Crescent

Saturday 16 January 1999392,889 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, January 16, 1999, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.5% of its visible face lit, 28.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.5%Illumination at noon UTC
28.6 dMoon age
392,889 km244,130 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (12°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 16, 1999 is on Saturday, January 2, 1999 at 02:50 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 17, 1999 at 15:46 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around January 16

More about this date

Saturday, January 16, 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.