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The Moon on Sunday, January 6, 2013: Waning Crescent, 35% lit

Waning · 35.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 03°

Moon age

24.1days

Moon phase on January 6, 2013Waning Crescent

Sunday 6 January 2013370,865 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 6, 2013, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 35.4% of its visible face lit, 24.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

35.4%Illumination at noon UTC
24.1 dMoon age
370,865 km230,445 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (3°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 6, 2013 is on Friday, December 28, 2012 at 10:21 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 11, 2013 at 19:44 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, January 5, 201303:58
New Moon (after)Friday, January 11, 201319:44

The Moon around January 6

More about this date

Sunday, January 6, 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.