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The Moon on Sunday, January 26, 2003: Waning Crescent, 37% lit

Waning · 37.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 21°

Moon age

23.7days

Moon phase on January 26, 2003Waning Crescent

Sunday 26 January 2003371,477 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 26, 2003, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 37.3% of its visible face lit, 23.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

37.3%Illumination at noon UTC
23.7 dMoon age
371,477 km230,825 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (21°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 26, 2003 is on Saturday, January 18, 2003 at 10:48 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, February 1, 2003 at 10:48 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, January 25, 200308:33
New Moon (after)Saturday, February 1, 200310:48

The Moon around January 26

More about this date

Sunday, January 26, 2003 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 2, 2003 to the new moon of February 1, 2003, a cycle of 29.60 days.