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The Moon on Tuesday, January 29, 2008: Waning Gibbous, 57% lit

Waning · 56.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 01°

Moon age

21.0days

Moon phase on January 29, 2008Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 29 January 2008402,655 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 29, 2008, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 56.9% of its visible face lit, 21.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

56.9%Illumination at noon UTC
21.0 dMoon age
402,655 km250,198 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (1°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 29, 2008 is on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 13:35 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 03:45 UTC, 9 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, January 22, 200813:35
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, January 30, 200805:03

The Moon around January 29

More about this date

Tuesday, January 29, 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.