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The Moon on Thursday, January 18, 1906: Waning Crescent, 43% lit

Waning · 42.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 05°

Moon age

23.3days

Moon phase on January 18, 1906Waning Crescent

Thursday 18 January 1906369,895 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, January 18, 1906, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 42.9% of its visible face lit, 23.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

42.9%Illumination at noon UTC
23.3 dMoon age
369,895 km229,842 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (6°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 18, 1906 is on Wednesday, January 10, 1906 at 16:36 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, January 24, 1906 at 17:09 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, January 17, 190620:49
New Moon (after)Wednesday, January 24, 190617:09

The Moon around January 18

More about this date

Thursday, January 18, 1906 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 26, 1905 to the new moon of January 24, 1906, a cycle of 29.55 days.