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The Moon on Friday, January 28, 2022: Waning Crescent, 19% lit

Waning · 18.9% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 17°

Moon age

25.7days

Moon phase on January 28, 2022Waning Crescent

Friday 28 January 2022364,517 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 28, 2022, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 18.9% of its visible face lit, 25.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

18.9%Illumination at noon UTC
25.7 dMoon age
364,517 km226,500 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (17°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 28, 2022 is on Monday, January 17, 2022 at 23:49 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 05:46 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, January 25, 202213:41
New Moon (after)Tuesday, February 1, 202205:46

The Moon around January 28

More about this date

Friday, January 28, 2022 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 2, 2022 to the new moon of February 1, 2022, a cycle of 29.47 days.