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The Moon on Sunday, January 8, 2012: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 07°

Moon age

14.7days

Moon phase on January 8, 2012Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 8 January 2012389,836 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 8, 2012, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 14.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
14.7 dMoon age
389,836 km242,233 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (8°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 8, 2012 is on Monday, January 9, 2012 at 07:30 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 24, 2011 at 18:06 UTC, 15 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, January 1, 201206:15
Full Moon (after)Monday, January 9, 201207:30

The Moon around January 8

More about this date

Sunday, January 8, 2012 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 24, 2011 to the new moon of January 23, 2012, a cycle of 29.56 days.