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The Moon on Tuesday, February 9, 1999: Waning Crescent, 41% lit

Waning · 40.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 01°

Moon age

22.8days

Moon phase on February 9, 1999Waning Crescent

Tuesday 9 February 1999403,533 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, February 9, 1999, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 40.7% of its visible face lit, 22.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

40.7%Illumination at noon UTC
22.8 dMoon age
403,533 km250,744 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (1°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to February 9, 1999 is on Sunday, January 31, 1999 at 16:07 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, February 16, 1999 at 06:39 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, February 8, 199911:58
New Moon (after)Tuesday, February 16, 199906:39

The Moon around February 9

More about this date

Tuesday, February 9, 1999 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 17, 1999 to the new moon of February 16, 1999, a cycle of 29.62 days.