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The Moon on Sunday, January 5, 1902: Waning Crescent, 17% lit

Waning · 16.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 25°

Moon age

25.4days

Moon phase on January 5, 1902Waning Crescent

Sunday 5 January 1902405,330 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 5, 1902, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 16.9% of its visible face lit, 25.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

16.9%Illumination at noon UTC
25.4 dMoon age
405,330 km251,860 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (26°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 5, 1902 is on Wednesday, December 25, 1901 at 12:16 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 9, 1902 at 21:15 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, January 1, 190216:08
New Moon (after)Thursday, January 9, 190221:15

The Moon around January 5

More about this date

Sunday, January 5, 1902 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 11, 1901 to the new moon of January 9, 1902, a cycle of 29.76 days.