
UTC
18 January 2013 Friday
Time: 12:00
JD 2456311
Universal Coordinated Time
Casablanca, Monrovia
Lunar phase on 18 January 2013 Friday is First Quarter.
The moon is in zodiac sign Aries
.
Moon phases from
the current moon cycle:
New Moon
on 2013-01-11 19:45
before 6.7 days
First Quarter
on 2013-01-18 23:45
after 0.5 day
Full Moon
on 2013-01-27 04:40
after 8.7 days
Last Quarter
on 2013-02-03 13:57
after 16.1 days
New Moon (next)
on 2013-02-10 07:22
after 22.8 days
The moon is growing bigger (young moon)
Fraction of the moon: 0.234169388558
Illumination of the moon disk: 45 %
Moon angular diameter: 0.5 °
Sun angular diameter: 0.54 °
Moon distance:
396815.53 km
Sun distance:
147191105.14 km
| 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.
