Moon phase for 17 January 2020 Friday

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17 January 2020 Friday
Time: 12:00
JD 2458866

Universal Coordinated Time
Casablanca, Monrovia

Lunar phase on 17 January 2020 Friday is Last Quarter.
The moon is in zodiac sign Libra .

The moon is Last Quarter on 17 January 2020 Friday

Moon phases from
the current moon cycle:

New Moon
on 2019-12-26 05:15
before 22.3 days

First Quarter
on 2020-01-03 04:46
before 14.3 days

Full Moon
on 2020-01-10 19:23
before 6.7 days

Last Quarter
on 2020-01-17 13:00
before 0 day

New Moon (next)
on 2020-01-24 21:44
after 7.4 days

The moon is growing smaller (old moon)
Fraction of the moon: 0.74794317351373
Illumination of the moon disk: 51 %

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

Moon distance:
365355.19 km

Sun distance:
147172073.23 km

Moon phases for the days after 17 January 2020

Saturday
18 January

Waning Crescent
39% / 0.78
Scorpio
Sunday
19 January

Waning Crescent
29% / 0.82
Scorpio
Monday
20 January

Waning Crescent
20% / 0.85
Sagittarius
Tuesday
21 January

Waning Crescent
12% / 0.89
Sagittarius
Wednesday
22 January

Waning Crescent
6% / 0.92
Capricorn
Thursday
23 January

Waning Crescent
2% / 0.95
Capricorn
Friday
24 January

New Moon
0% / 0.99
Capricorn

2020 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.