Moon phases and lunar diet

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Moon phase for 5 January 2017 Thursday

Moon phase for 5 January 2017 Thursday

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

UTC

5 January 2017 Thursday
Time: 12:00
JD 2457759

Universal Coordinated Time
Casablanca, Monrovia

Lunar phase on 5 January 2017 Thursday is First Quarter.
The moon is in zodiac sign Aries The moon is in zodiac sign Aries.

The moon is First Quarter on 5 January 2017 Thursday

Moon phases from
the current moon cycle:

New Moon New Moon
on 2016-12-29 06:54
before 7.2 days

First Quarter First Quarter
on 2017-01-05 19:47
after 0.3 day

Full Moon Full Moon
on 2017-01-12 11:35
after 7 days

Last Quarter Last Quarter
on 2017-01-19 22:14
after 14.4 days

New Moon New Moon (next)
on 2017-01-28 00:08
after 22.5 days

The moon is growing bigger (young moon)
Fraction of the moon: 0.23905975757365
Illumination of the moon disk: 47 %

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

Moon distance:
368703.68 km

Sun distance:
147100345.46 km

Moon phases for the days after 5 January 2017

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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.