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The Moon on Sunday, January 1, 2079: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 3.1% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 21°

Moon age

28.0days

Moon phase on January 1, 2079Waning Crescent

Sunday 1 January 2079403,132 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 1, 2079, the Moon will be a Waning Crescent: 3.1% of its visible face lit, 28.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.1%Illumination at noon UTC
28.0 dMoon age
403,132 km250,495 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (21°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 1, 2079 is on Sunday, December 18, 2078 at 23:34 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 3, 2079 at 06:50 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, December 26, 207801:16
New Moon (after)Tuesday, January 3, 207906:50

The Moon around January 1

More about this date

Sunday, January 1, 2079 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 4, 2078 to the new moon of January 3, 2079, a cycle of 29.78 days.