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The Moon on Sunday, January 5, 2053: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 26°

Moon age

15.3days

Moon phase on January 5, 2053Waning Gibbous

Sunday 5 January 2053360,236 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 5, 2053, the Moon will be a Waning Gibbous: 99.0% of its visible face lit, 15.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.0%Illumination at noon UTC
15.3 dMoon age
360,236 km223,840 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (26°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 5, 2053 is on Saturday, January 4, 2053 at 17:46 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 19, 2053 at 23:12 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, January 4, 205317:46
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, January 11, 205318:09

The Moon around January 5

More about this date

Sunday, January 5, 2053 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 21, 2052 to the new moon of January 19, 2053, a cycle of 29.79 days.