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The Moon on Sunday, January 17, 1909: Waning Crescent, 24% lit

Waning · 23.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 28°

Moon age

25.0days

Moon phase on January 17, 1909Waning Crescent

Sunday 17 January 1909385,404 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 17, 1909, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 23.9% of its visible face lit, 25.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

23.9%Illumination at noon UTC
25.0 dMoon age
385,404 km239,479 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (28°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 17, 1909 is on Wednesday, January 6, 1909 at 14:13 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 22, 1909 at 00:12 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, January 14, 190918:11
New Moon (after)Friday, January 22, 190900:12

The Moon around January 17

More about this date

Sunday, January 17, 1909 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 23, 1908 to the new moon of January 22, 1909, a cycle of 29.52 days.