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The Moon on Friday, January 18, 1901: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 5.3% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 01°

Moon age

27.5days

Moon phase on January 18, 1901Waning Crescent

Friday 18 January 1901384,825 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 18, 1901, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.3% of its visible face lit, 27.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.3%Illumination at noon UTC
27.5 dMoon age
384,825 km239,119 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (1°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 18, 1901 is on Saturday, January 5, 1901 at 00:13 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 20, 1901 at 14:36 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, January 12, 190120:38
New Moon (after)Sunday, January 20, 190114:36

The Moon around January 18

More about this date

Friday, January 18, 1901 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 22, 1900 to the new moon of January 20, 1901, a cycle of 29.61 days.