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The Moon on Sunday, January 6, 1918: Waning Crescent, 41% lit

Waning · 40.5% lit · ♎︎ Libra 26°

Moon age

23.1days

Moon phase on January 6, 1918Waning Crescent

Sunday 6 January 1918398,982 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 6, 1918, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 40.5% of its visible face lit, 23.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

40.5%Illumination at noon UTC
23.1 dMoon age
398,982 km247,916 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (27°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 6, 1918 is on Friday, December 28, 1917 at 09:51 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 12, 1918 at 22:35 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, January 5, 191811:49
New Moon (after)Saturday, January 12, 191822:35

The Moon around January 6

More about this date

Sunday, January 6, 1918 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 14, 1917 to the new moon of January 12, 1918, a cycle of 29.55 days.