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The Moon on Wednesday, January 25, 2006: Waning Crescent, 22% lit

Waning · 21.9% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 09°

Moon age

25.4days

Moon phase on January 25, 2006Waning Crescent

Wednesday 25 January 2006376,661 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 25, 2006, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 21.9% of its visible face lit, 25.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

21.9%Illumination at noon UTC
25.4 dMoon age
376,661 km234,046 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (10°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 25, 2006 is on Saturday, January 14, 2006 at 09:48 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 29, 2006 at 14:15 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, January 22, 200615:14
New Moon (after)Sunday, January 29, 200614:15

The Moon around January 25

More about this date

Wednesday, January 25, 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.