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The Moon on Tuesday, January 23, 2001: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 1.0% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 22°

Moon age

28.8days

Moon phase on January 23, 2001Waning Crescent

Tuesday 23 January 2001406,020 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 23, 2001, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.0% of its visible face lit, 28.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.0%Illumination at noon UTC
28.8 dMoon age
406,020 km252,289 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (22°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 23, 2001 is on Tuesday, January 9, 2001 at 20:24 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, January 24, 2001 at 13:07 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around January 23

More about this date

Tuesday, January 23, 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.