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The Moon on Friday, January 22, 2010: Waxing Crescent, 41% lit

Waxing · 40.5% lit · ♈︎ Aries 21°

Moon age

7.2days

Moon phase on January 22, 2010Waxing Crescent

Friday 22 January 2010393,633 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 22, 2010, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 40.5% of its visible face lit, 7.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

40.5%Illumination at noon UTC
7.2 dMoon age
393,633 km244,592 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (21°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 22, 2010 is on Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 06:18 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 15, 2010 at 07:12 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, January 15, 201007:12
First Quarter (after)Saturday, January 23, 201010:54

The Moon around January 22

More about this date

Friday, January 22, 2010 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 15, 2010 to the new moon of February 14, 2010, a cycle of 29.82 days.