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The Moon on Tuesday, January 1, 2013: Waning Gibbous, 85% lit

Waning · 84.8% lit · ♌︎ Leo 27°

Moon age

19.1days

Moon phase on January 1, 2013Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 1 January 2013393,149 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 1, 2013, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 84.8% of its visible face lit, 19.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

84.8%Illumination at noon UTC
19.1 dMoon age
393,149 km244,292 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (27°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 1, 2013 is on Friday, December 28, 2012 at 10:21 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 11, 2013 at 19:44 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, December 28, 201210:21
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, January 5, 201303:58

The Moon around January 1

More about this date

Tuesday, January 1, 2013 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 13, 2012 to the new moon of January 11, 2013, a cycle of 29.46 days.