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The Moon on Sunday, January 12, 2053: Waning Crescent, 43% lit

Waning · 42.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 01°

Moon age

22.3days

Moon phase on January 12, 2053Waning Crescent

Sunday 12 January 2053398,196 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 12, 2053, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 42.9% of its visible face lit, 22.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

42.9%Illumination at noon UTC
22.3 dMoon age
398,196 km247,427 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (1°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 12, 2053 is on Saturday, January 4, 2053 at 17:46 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 19, 2053 at 23:12 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, January 11, 205318:09
New Moon (after)Sunday, January 19, 205323:12

The Moon around January 12

More about this date

Sunday, January 12, 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.