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The Moon on Wednesday, January 26, 2011: Last Quarter, 51% lit

Waning · 50.6% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 05°

Last Quarter at

12:57UTC

Moon phase on January 26, 2011Last Quarter

Wednesday 26 January 2011373,740 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 26, 2011, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 50.6% of its visible face lit, 22.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

50.6%Illumination at noon UTC
22.1 dMoon age
373,740 km232,231 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (6°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 26, 2011 is on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 21:22 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 02:31 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, January 19, 201121:22
Last Quarter (this day)Wednesday, January 26, 201112:57
New Moon (after)Thursday, February 3, 201102:31

The Moon around January 26

More about this date

Wednesday, January 26, 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.