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The Moon on Sunday, January 23, 1921: Full Moon, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 26°

Full Moon at

23:08UTC

Moon phase on January 23, 1921Full Moon

Sunday 23 January 1921356,720 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 23, 1921, the Moon was a Full Moon: 99.5% of its visible face lit, 14.3 days after the new moon and at its fullest. The exact Full Moon happened at .

99.5%Illumination at noon UTC
14.3 dMoon age
356,720 km221,655 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (26°)
33.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
FullWhole disc lit

Full moon

This is the Wolf Moon, 356,875 km from Earth. Closest supermoon of the year

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 23, 1921 is on Sunday, January 23, 1921 at 23:08 UTC, the same day, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 9, 1921 at 05:27 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, January 17, 192106:31
Full Moon (this day)Sunday, January 23, 192123:08
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, January 30, 192120:02

The Moon around January 23

More about this date

Sunday, January 23, 1921 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 9, 1921 to the new moon of February 8, 1921, a cycle of 29.80 days.