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The Moon on Wednesday, January 22, 2020: Waning Crescent, 6% lit

Waning · 5.9% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 03°

Moon age

27.3days

Moon phase on January 22, 2020Waning Crescent

Wednesday 22 January 2020387,279 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 22, 2020, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.9% of its visible face lit, 27.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.9%Illumination at noon UTC
27.3 dMoon age
387,279 km240,644 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (4°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 22, 2020 is on Friday, January 10, 2020 at 19:21 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 24, 2020 at 21:42 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, January 17, 202012:59
New Moon (after)Friday, January 24, 202021:42

The Moon around January 22

More about this date

Wednesday, January 22, 2020 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 26, 2019 to the new moon of January 24, 2020, a cycle of 29.69 days.