Moon phase for 16 January 2012 Monday

Moon phase, position of the lunar cycle, dates of full moon and new moon.

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UTC

16 January 2012 Monday
Time: 12:00
JD 2455943

Universal Coordinated Time
Casablanca, Monrovia

UTC--12 Dateline Standard Time
Eniwetok, Kwajalein
UTC--11 Samoa Standard Time
Midway Is, Samoa
UTC--10 Alaskan / Hawaiian Standard Time
Hawaii, Alaska
UTC--8 Pacific Standard Time
Pacific Time (US & Canada); Tijuana
UTC--7 Mountain / Mexican Standard Time
Mountain Time (US & Canada), Arizona, Chihuahua, La Paz, Mazatlan
UTC--6 Central Standard Time
Central Time (US & Canada), Mexico City, Tegucigalpa, Saskatchewan, Central America
UTC--5 East Standard Time
Eastern Time (US & Canada), Indiana (East), Bogota, Lima, Quito
UTC--4 Atlantic Standard Time
Atlantic Time (Canada), Caracas, La Paz, Santiago
UTC--3 South America Eastern Standard Time
Brasilia, Buenos Aires, Georgetown, Mid-Atlantic, Greenland
UTC--1 Azores Standard Time
Azores, Cape Verde Is
UTC Universal Coordinated Time
Casablanca, Monrovia
UTC Greenwich Mean Time
Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London
UTC+1 Central Europe Standard Time
Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris, Vilnius, Brussels, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna, Belgrade, Sarajevo, Skopje, Sofija, Zagreb, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague, Warsaw, West Central Africa
UTC+2 East Europe Standard Time
Sofia, Bucharest, Athens, Istanbul, Minsk, Helsinki, Riga, Tallinn, Cairo, Israel, Harare, Pretoria
UTC+3 Russian Standard Time
Moscow, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Kuwait, Riyadh, Nairobi
UTC+4 Arabian Standard Time
Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Baku, Tbilisi, Kabul
UTC+5 West Asia Standard Time
Islamabad, Karachi, Tashkent
UTC+6 India Standard Time
Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, New Delhi
UTC+6 Nepal Standard Time
Kathmandu
UTC+6 Northern Central Asia Standard Time
Almaty, Novosibirsk, Columbo, Dhaka
UTC+7 Myanmar Standard Time
Rangoon
UTC+7 South-East Asia Standard Time
Bangkok, Hanoi, Jakarta, Krasnoyarsk
UTC+8 West Australia / China Standard Time
Perth, Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Urumqi, Singapore, Taipei, Irkutsk, Ulaan Bataar
UTC+9 Tokyo / Korea Standard Time
Osako, Sapporo, Tokyo, Seoul, Yakutsk
UTC+10 Central Australia Standard Time
Adelaide
UTC+10 East Australia Standard Time
Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart, Guam, Port Moresby, Vladivostok, Magadan, Solomon Is, New Caledonia
UTC+12 New Zealand / Fiji Standard Time
Auckland, Wellington, Fiji, Kamchatka, Marshall Is
UTC+13 Tonga Standard Time
Nuku'alofa

Lunar phase on 16 January 2012 Monday is Last Quarter.
The moon is in zodiac sign Libra .

The moon is Last Quarter on 16 January 2012 Monday

Moon phases from
the current moon cycle:

New Moon
on 2011-12-24 18:08
before 22.7 days

First Quarter
on 2012-01-01 06:16
before 15.2 days

Full Moon
on 2012-01-09 07:32
before 7.2 days

Last Quarter
on 2012-01-16 09:09
before 0.1 day

New Moon (next)
on 2012-01-23 07:41
after 6.8 days

The moon is growing smaller (old moon)
Fraction of the moon: 0.753873228069
Illumination of the moon disk: 49 %

Moon angular diameter: 0.55 °
Sun angular diameter: 0.54 °

Moon distance:
363406.28 km

Sun distance:
147161231.78 km

Moon phases for the days after 16 January 2012

Tuesday
17 January

Waning Crescent
37% / 0.79
Scorpio
Wednesday
18 January

Waning Crescent
27% / 0.83
Scorpio
Thursday
19 January

Waning Crescent
17% / 0.86
Sagittarius
Friday
20 January

Waning Crescent
10% / 0.9
Sagittarius
Saturday
21 January

Waning Crescent
4% / 0.94
Capricorn
Sunday
22 January

Waning Crescent
1% / 0.97
Capricorn
Monday
23 January

New Moon
0% / 0.01
Aquarius

2012 January

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
						1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30	31

For calculation of the lunar phase and the course of the moon through the zodiac is taken the moon fraction at 12 o'clock noon on the given date.

When crossing the zodiac from one zodiac sign to another, often for a short time Moon is Void of course moon. This phenomenon is not marked in the table above.

From New moon to Full moon the Moon is growing bigger (young moon), and after Full moon it is growing small (old moon).

The time the Moon makes a complete orbit around the Earth (sidereal period) is 27.321661 days. The time between two consecutive New moon phases is 29.53058867 days.