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The Moon on Friday, January 16, 1920: Waning Crescent, 19% lit

Waning · 19.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 03°

Moon age

25.0days

Moon phase on January 16, 1920Waning Crescent

Friday 16 January 1920405,481 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 16, 1920, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 19.3% of its visible face lit, 25.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

19.3%Illumination at noon UTC
25.0 dMoon age
405,481 km251,954 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (3°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 16, 1920 is on Monday, January 5, 1920 at 21:05 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, January 21, 1920 at 05:27 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, January 13, 192000:08
New Moon (after)Wednesday, January 21, 192005:27

The Moon around January 16

More about this date

Friday, January 16, 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.