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The Moon on Friday, January 6, 2073: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 3.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 24°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on January 6, 2073Waning Crescent

Friday 6 January 2073384,708 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 6, 2073, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 3.8% of its visible face lit, 27.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.8%Illumination at noon UTC
27.8 dMoon age
384,708 km239,046 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (25°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 6, 2073 is on Sunday, December 25, 2072 at 07:15 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 8, 2073 at 08:11 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, January 1, 207303:27
New Moon (after)Sunday, January 8, 207308:11

The Moon around January 6

More about this date

Friday, January 6, 2073 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 9, 2072 to the new moon of January 8, 2073, a cycle of 29.63 days.