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The Moon on Wednesday, January 30, 2008: Last Quarter, 47% lit

Waning · 47.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 13°

Last Quarter at

05:03UTC

Moon phase on January 30, 2008Last Quarter

Wednesday 30 January 2008404,213 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 30, 2008, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 47.4% of its visible face lit, 22.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

47.4%Illumination at noon UTC
22.0 dMoon age
404,213 km251,166 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (13°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 30, 2008 is on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 13:35 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 03:45 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, January 22, 200813:35
Last Quarter (this day)Wednesday, January 30, 200805:03
New Moon (after)Thursday, February 7, 200803:45

The Moon around January 30

More about this date

Wednesday, January 30, 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.