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The Moon on Monday, January 16, 2006: Waning Gibbous, 96% lit

Waning · 95.9% lit · ♌︎ Leo 19°

Moon age

16.4days

Moon phase on January 16, 2006Waning Gibbous

Monday 16 January 2006405,174 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, January 16, 2006, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.9% of its visible face lit, 16.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.9%Illumination at noon UTC
16.4 dMoon age
405,174 km251,763 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (19°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 16, 2006 is on Saturday, January 14, 2006 at 09:48 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 29, 2006 at 14:15 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, January 14, 200609:48
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, January 22, 200615:14

The Moon around January 16

More about this date

Monday, January 16, 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.