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The Moon on Tuesday, January 1, 2019: Waning Crescent, 19% lit

Waning · 19.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 18°

Moon age

25.2days

Moon phase on January 1, 2019Waning Crescent

Tuesday 1 January 2019389,034 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 1, 2019, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 19.4% of its visible face lit, 25.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

19.4%Illumination at noon UTC
25.2 dMoon age
389,034 km241,735 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (19°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 1, 2019 is on Saturday, December 22, 2018 at 17:49 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 6, 2019 at 01:28 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, December 29, 201809:34
New Moon (after)Sunday, January 6, 201901:28

The Moon around January 1

More about this date

Tuesday, January 1, 2019 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 7, 2018 to the new moon of January 6, 2019, a cycle of 29.76 days.