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The Moon on Friday, January 8, 2010: Waning Crescent, 39% lit

Waning · 38.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 01°

Moon age

23.0days

Moon phase on January 8, 2010Waning Crescent

Friday 8 January 2010384,449 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 8, 2010, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 38.9% of its visible face lit, 23.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

38.9%Illumination at noon UTC
23.0 dMoon age
384,449 km238,885 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (1°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 8, 2010 is on Thursday, December 31, 2009 at 19:13 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 15, 2010 at 07:12 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, January 7, 201010:40
New Moon (after)Friday, January 15, 201007:12

The Moon around January 8

More about this date

Friday, January 8, 2010 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 16, 2009 to the new moon of January 15, 2010, a cycle of 29.80 days.