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The Moon on Tuesday, January 16, 1912: Waning Crescent, 8% lit

Waning · 7.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 22°

Moon age

26.8days

Moon phase on January 16, 1912Waning Crescent

Tuesday 16 January 1912405,710 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 16, 1912, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 7.8% of its visible face lit, 26.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

7.8%Illumination at noon UTC
26.8 dMoon age
405,710 km252,097 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (23°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 16, 1912 is on Thursday, January 4, 1912 at 13:29 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 19, 1912 at 11:10 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, January 11, 191207:43
New Moon (after)Friday, January 19, 191211:10

The Moon around January 16

More about this date

Tuesday, January 16, 1912 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 20, 1911 to the new moon of January 19, 1912, a cycle of 29.81 days.