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The Moon on Sunday, January 21, 1906: Waning Crescent, 13% lit

Waning · 12.9% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 18°

Moon age

26.3days

Moon phase on January 21, 1906Waning Crescent

Sunday 21 January 1906369,553 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 21, 1906, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 12.9% of its visible face lit, 26.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

12.9%Illumination at noon UTC
26.3 dMoon age
369,553 km229,629 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (19°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 21, 1906 is on Wednesday, January 10, 1906 at 16:36 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, January 24, 1906 at 17:09 UTC, 3 days later.

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

The Moon around January 21

More about this date

Sunday, January 21, 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.