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The Moon on Tuesday, January 21, 2014: Waning Gibbous, 76% lit

Waning · 76.4% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 29°

Moon age

20.0days

Moon phase on January 21, 2014Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 21 January 2014396,449 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 21, 2014, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 76.4% of its visible face lit, 20.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

76.4%Illumination at noon UTC
20.0 dMoon age
396,449 km246,342 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (30°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 21, 2014 is on Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 04:52 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 21:39 UTC, 9 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, January 16, 201404:52
Last Quarter (after)Friday, January 24, 201405:19

The Moon around January 21

More about this date

Tuesday, January 21, 2014 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 1, 2014 to the new moon of January 30, 2014, a cycle of 29.43 days.