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The Moon on Wednesday, January 17, 2001: Waning Crescent, 40% lit

Waning · 40.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 09°

Moon age

22.8days

Moon phase on January 17, 2001Waning Crescent

Wednesday 17 January 2001388,178 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 17, 2001, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 40.0% of its visible face lit, 22.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

40.0%Illumination at noon UTC
22.8 dMoon age
388,178 km241,203 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (9°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 17, 2001 is on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 at 20:24 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, January 24, 2001 at 13:07 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, January 16, 200112:35
New Moon (after)Wednesday, January 24, 200113:07

The Moon around January 17

More about this date

Wednesday, January 17, 2001 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 25, 2000 to the new moon of January 24, 2001, a cycle of 29.82 days.