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The Moon on Friday, January 24, 2014: Last Quarter, 47% lit

Waning · 47.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 07°

Last Quarter at

05:19UTC

Moon phase on January 24, 2014Last Quarter

Friday 24 January 2014381,572 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 24, 2014, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 47.2% of its visible face lit, 23.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

47.2%Illumination at noon UTC
23.0 dMoon age
381,572 km237,098 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (8°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 24, 2014 is on Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 04:52 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 21:39 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, January 16, 201404:52
Last Quarter (this day)Friday, January 24, 201405:19
New Moon (after)Thursday, January 30, 201421:39

The Moon around January 24

More about this date

Friday, January 24, 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.