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The Moon on Wednesday, January 1, 1919: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 29°

Moon age

28.9days

Moon phase on January 1, 1919Waning Crescent

Wednesday 1 January 1919391,187 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 1, 1919, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.8% of its visible face lit, 28.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.8%Illumination at noon UTC
28.9 dMoon age
391,187 km243,072 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (30°)
30.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 1, 1919 is on Tuesday, December 17, 1918 at 19:17 UTC, 15 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 2, 1919 at 08:24 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, December 25, 191806:30
New Moon (after)Thursday, January 2, 191908:24

The Moon around January 1

More about this date

Wednesday, January 1, 1919 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 3, 1918 to the new moon of January 2, 1919, a cycle of 29.71 days.