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The Moon on Tuesday, January 6, 1920: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 23°

Moon age

15.0days

Moon phase on January 6, 1920Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 6 January 1920362,668 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 6, 1920, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 15.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
15.0 dMoon age
362,668 km225,351 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (24°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 6, 1920 is on Monday, January 5, 1920 at 21:05 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, January 21, 1920 at 05:27 UTC, 15 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, January 5, 192021:05
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, January 13, 192000:08

The Moon around January 6

More about this date

Tuesday, January 6, 1920 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 22, 1919 to the new moon of January 21, 1920, a cycle of 29.77 days.