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The Moon on Friday, January 21, 2050: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.4% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 07°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on January 21, 2050Waning Crescent

Friday 21 January 2050362,281 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 21, 2050, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 4.4% of its visible face lit, 27.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.4%Illumination at noon UTC
27.8 dMoon age
362,281 km225,111 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (8°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 21, 2050 is on Saturday, January 8, 2050 at 01:39 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 23, 2050 at 04:57 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, January 16, 205006:18
New Moon (after)Sunday, January 23, 205004:57

The Moon around January 21

More about this date

Friday, January 21, 2050 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 24, 2049 to the new moon of January 23, 2050, a cycle of 29.46 days.