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The Moon on Sunday, January 25, 2009: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.6% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 26°

Moon age

29.0days

Moon phase on January 25, 2009Waning Crescent

Sunday 25 January 2009403,712 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 25, 2009, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.6% of its visible face lit, 29.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.6%Illumination at noon UTC
29.0 dMoon age
403,712 km250,855 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (27°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 25, 2009 is on Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 03:27 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 26, 2009 at 07:56 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, January 18, 200902:46
New Moon (after)Monday, January 26, 200907:56

The Moon around January 25

More about this date

Sunday, January 25, 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.