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The Moon on Friday, January 4, 2019: Waning Crescent, 2% lit

Waning · 2.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 26°

Moon age

28.2days

Moon phase on January 4, 2019Waning Crescent

Friday 4 January 2019398,874 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 4, 2019, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 2.3% of its visible face lit, 28.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

2.3%Illumination at noon UTC
28.2 dMoon age
398,874 km247,849 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (26°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 4, 2019 is on Saturday, December 22, 2018 at 17:49 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 6, 2019 at 01:28 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around January 4

More about this date

Friday, January 4, 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.