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The Moon on Sunday, January 22, 2012: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.9% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 21°

Moon age

28.7days

Moon phase on January 22, 2012Waning Crescent

Sunday 22 January 2012377,314 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 22, 2012, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.9% of its visible face lit, 28.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.9%Illumination at noon UTC
28.7 dMoon age
377,314 km234,452 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (22°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 22, 2012 is on Monday, January 9, 2012 at 07:30 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 23, 2012 at 07:39 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, January 16, 201209:08
New Moon (after)Monday, January 23, 201207:39

The Moon around January 22

More about this date

Sunday, January 22, 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.