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The Moon on Sunday, January 30, 2011: Waning Crescent, 13% lit

Waning · 12.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 28°

Moon age

26.1days

Moon phase on January 30, 2011Waning Crescent

Sunday 30 January 2011389,061 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 30, 2011, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 12.5% of its visible face lit, 26.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

12.5%Illumination at noon UTC
26.1 dMoon age
389,061 km241,751 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (29°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 30, 2011 is on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 21:22 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 02:31 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, January 26, 201112:57
New Moon (after)Thursday, February 3, 201102:31

The Moon around January 30

More about this date

Sunday, January 30, 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.