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The Moon on Thursday, January 20, 2011: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.4% lit · ♌︎ Leo 08°

Moon age

16.1days

Moon phase on January 20, 2011Waning Gibbous

Thursday 20 January 2011364,489 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, January 20, 2011, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.4% of its visible face lit, 16.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.4%Illumination at noon UTC
16.1 dMoon age
364,489 km226,483 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (8°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 20, 2011 is on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 21:22 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 02:31 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, January 19, 201121:22
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, January 26, 201112:57

The Moon around January 20

More about this date

Thursday, January 20, 2011 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 4, 2011 to the new moon of February 3, 2011, a cycle of 29.73 days.