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The Moon on Thursday, January 26, 2006: Waning Crescent, 13% lit

Waning · 13.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 23°

Moon age

26.4days

Moon phase on January 26, 2006Waning Crescent

Thursday 26 January 2006370,536 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, January 26, 2006, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 13.4% of its visible face lit, 26.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

13.4%Illumination at noon UTC
26.4 dMoon age
370,536 km230,240 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (24°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 26, 2006 is on Saturday, January 14, 2006 at 09:48 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 29, 2006 at 14:15 UTC, 3 days later.

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

The Moon around January 26

More about this date

Thursday, January 26, 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.