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The Moon on Saturday, January 10, 2009: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 11°

Moon age

14.0days

Moon phase on January 10, 2009Waxing Gibbous

Saturday 10 January 2009357,491 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, January 10, 2009, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 14.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
14.0 dMoon age
357,491 km222,134 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (11°)
33.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 10, 2009 is on Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 03:27 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 27, 2008 at 12:23 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, January 4, 200911:56
Full Moon (after)Sunday, January 11, 200903:27

The Moon around January 10

More about this date

Saturday, January 10, 2009 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 27, 2008 to the new moon of January 26, 2009, a cycle of 29.81 days.