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The Moon on Tuesday, January 28, 2014: Waning Crescent, 9% lit

Waning · 8.8% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 04°

Moon age

27.0days

Moon phase on January 28, 2014Waning Crescent

Tuesday 28 January 2014360,554 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 28, 2014, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 8.8% of its visible face lit, 27.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

8.8%Illumination at noon UTC
27.0 dMoon age
360,554 km224,038 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (4°)
33.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 28, 2014 is on Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 04:52 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 21:39 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, January 24, 201405:19
New Moon (after)Thursday, January 30, 201421:39

The Moon around January 28

More about this date

Tuesday, January 28, 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.