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The Moon on Sunday, January 4, 2015: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 05°

Moon age

13.4days

Moon phase on January 4, 2015Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 4 January 2015395,094 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 4, 2015, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 13.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
13.4 dMoon age
395,094 km245,500 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (6°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 4, 2015 is on Monday, January 5, 2015 at 04:54 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 22, 2014 at 01:36 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, December 28, 201418:32
Full Moon (after)Monday, January 5, 201504:54

The Moon around January 4

More about this date

Sunday, January 4, 2015 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 22, 2014 to the new moon of January 20, 2015, a cycle of 29.48 days.