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The Moon on Friday, January 13, 2006: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 12°

Moon age

13.4days

Moon phase on January 13, 2006Waxing Gibbous

Friday 13 January 2006399,499 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 13, 2006, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.0% of its visible face lit, 13.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.0%Illumination at noon UTC
13.4 dMoon age
399,499 km248,237 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (13°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 13, 2006 is on Saturday, January 14, 2006 at 09:48 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 31, 2005 at 03:12 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Friday, January 6, 200618:57
Full Moon (after)Saturday, January 14, 200609:48

The Moon around January 13

More about this date

Friday, January 13, 2006 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 31, 2005 to the new moon of January 29, 2006, a cycle of 29.46 days.