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The Moon on Thursday, January 8, 2004: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 27°

Moon age

16.1days

Moon phase on January 8, 2004Waning Gibbous

Thursday 8 January 2004398,050 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, January 8, 2004, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.1% of its visible face lit, 16.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.1%Illumination at noon UTC
16.1 dMoon age
398,050 km247,337 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (27°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 8, 2004 is on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 at 15:40 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, January 21, 2004 at 21:05 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, January 7, 200415:40
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, January 15, 200404:46

The Moon around January 8

More about this date

Thursday, January 8, 2004 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 23, 2003 to the new moon of January 21, 2004, a cycle of 29.47 days.