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The Moon on Wednesday, January 21, 2015: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 1.5% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 14°

Moon age

0.9days

Moon phase on January 21, 2015Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 21 January 2015359,735 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 21, 2015, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 1.5% of its visible face lit, 0.9 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.5%Illumination at noon UTC
0.9 dMoon age
359,735 km223,529 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (14°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 21, 2015 is on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 23:09 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 13:14 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, January 20, 201513:14
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, January 27, 201504:49

The Moon around January 21

More about this date

Wednesday, January 21, 2015 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 20, 2015 to the new moon of February 18, 2015, a cycle of 29.44 days.