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The Moon on Saturday, January 6, 2046: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.5% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 08°

Moon age

29.0days

Moon phase on January 6, 2046Waning Crescent

Saturday 6 January 2046395,481 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, January 6, 2046, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 0.5% of its visible face lit, 29.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.5%Illumination at noon UTC
29.0 dMoon age
395,481 km245,740 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (9°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 6, 2046 is on Sunday, December 24, 2045 at 00:49 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 7, 2046 at 04:24 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, December 30, 204518:11
New Moon (after)Sunday, January 7, 204604:24

The Moon around January 6

More about this date

Saturday, January 6, 2046 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 8, 2045 to the new moon of January 7, 2046, a cycle of 29.70 days.