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The Moon on Wednesday, January 20, 1909: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 3.2% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 09°

Moon age

28.0days

Moon phase on January 20, 1909Waning Crescent

Wednesday 20 January 1909368,239 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 20, 1909, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.2% of its visible face lit, 28.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.2%Illumination at noon UTC
28.0 dMoon age
368,239 km228,813 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (9°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 20, 1909 is on Wednesday, January 6, 1909 at 14:13 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 22, 1909 at 00:12 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around January 20

More about this date

Wednesday, January 20, 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.