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The Moon on Tuesday, January 16, 2007: Waning Crescent, 9% lit

Waning · 8.6% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 22°

Moon age

26.9days

Moon phase on January 16, 2007Waning Crescent

Tuesday 16 January 2007385,531 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 16, 2007, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 8.6% of its visible face lit, 26.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

8.6%Illumination at noon UTC
26.9 dMoon age
385,531 km239,558 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (22°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 16, 2007 is on Wednesday, January 3, 2007 at 13:58 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 19, 2007 at 04:01 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, January 11, 200712:45
New Moon (after)Friday, January 19, 200704:01

The Moon around January 16

More about this date

Tuesday, January 16, 2007 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 20, 2006 to the new moon of January 19, 2007, a cycle of 29.58 days.