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The Moon on Tuesday, January 6, 2043: Waning Crescent, 21% lit

Waning · 21.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 21°

Moon age

24.9days

Moon phase on January 6, 2043Waning Crescent

Tuesday 6 January 2043402,869 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 6, 2043, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 21.4% of its visible face lit, 24.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

21.4%Illumination at noon UTC
24.9 dMoon age
402,869 km250,331 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (21°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 6, 2043 is on Friday, December 26, 2042 at 17:43 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 11, 2043 at 06:53 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, January 3, 204306:08
New Moon (after)Sunday, January 11, 204306:53

The Moon around January 6

More about this date

Tuesday, January 6, 2043 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 12, 2042 to the new moon of January 11, 2043, a cycle of 29.68 days.