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The Moon on Tuesday, January 8, 2008: New Moon, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.1% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 17°

New Moon at

11:37UTC

Moon phase on January 8, 2008New Moon

Tuesday 8 January 2008394,395 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 8, 2008, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.1% of its visible face lit, 29.8 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.1%Illumination at noon UTC
29.8 dMoon age
394,395 km245,066 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (18°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 8, 2008 is on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 13:35 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 11:37 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, December 31, 200707:51
New Moon (this day)Tuesday, January 8, 200811:37
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, January 15, 200819:46

The Moon around January 8

More about this date

Tuesday, January 8, 2008 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 8, 2008 to the new moon of February 7, 2008, a cycle of 29.67 days.