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The Moon on Sunday, January 5, 1913: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 3.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 22°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on January 5, 1913Waning Crescent

Sunday 5 January 1913395,927 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 5, 1913, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.8% of its visible face lit, 27.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.8%Illumination at noon UTC
27.8 dMoon age
395,927 km246,017 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (23°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 5, 1913 is on Tuesday, December 24, 1912 at 04:30 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 7, 1913 at 10:28 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, December 30, 191220:12
New Moon (after)Tuesday, January 7, 191310:28

The Moon around January 5

More about this date

Sunday, January 5, 1913 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 8, 1912 to the new moon of January 7, 1913, a cycle of 29.72 days.