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The Moon on Friday, January 29, 2010: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 28°

Moon age

14.2days

Moon phase on January 29, 2010Waxing Gibbous

Friday 29 January 2010357,366 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 29, 2010, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.1% of its visible face lit, 14.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.1%Illumination at noon UTC
14.2 dMoon age
357,366 km222,057 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (29°)
33.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 29, 2010 is on Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 06:18 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 15, 2010 at 07:12 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, January 23, 201010:54
Full Moon (after)Saturday, January 30, 201006:18

The Moon around January 29

More about this date

Friday, January 29, 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.