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The Moon on Friday, January 9, 2015: Waning Gibbous, 84% lit

Waning · 83.8% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 06°

Moon age

18.4days

Moon phase on January 9, 2015Waning Gibbous

Friday 9 January 2015405,361 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 9, 2015, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 83.8% of its visible face lit, 18.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

83.8%Illumination at noon UTC
18.4 dMoon age
405,361 km251,879 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (6°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 9, 2015 is on Monday, January 5, 2015 at 04:54 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 13:14 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, January 5, 201504:54
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, January 13, 201509:47

The Moon around January 9

More about this date

Friday, January 9, 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.