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The Moon on Sunday, January 22, 2006: Last Quarter, 51% lit

Waning · 51.5% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 00°

Last Quarter at

15:14UTC

Moon phase on January 22, 2006Last Quarter

Sunday 22 January 2006394,390 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 22, 2006, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 51.5% of its visible face lit, 22.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

51.5%Illumination at noon UTC
22.4 dMoon age
394,390 km245,062 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (1°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 22, 2006 is on Saturday, January 14, 2006 at 09:48 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 29, 2006 at 14:15 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, January 14, 200609:48
Last Quarter (this day)Sunday, January 22, 200615:14
New Moon (after)Sunday, January 29, 200614:15

The Moon around January 22

More about this date

Sunday, January 22, 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.