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The Moon on Wednesday, January 2, 1924: Waning Crescent, 22% lit

Waning · 21.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 15°

Moon age

25.4days

Moon phase on January 2, 1924Waning Crescent

Wednesday 2 January 1924365,320 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 2, 1924, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 21.8% of its visible face lit, 25.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

21.8%Illumination at noon UTC
25.4 dMoon age
365,320 km226,999 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (15°)
32.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 2, 1924 is on Sunday, December 23, 1923 at 07:33 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 6, 1924 at 12:48 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, December 30, 192321:07
New Moon (after)Sunday, January 6, 192412:48

The Moon around January 2

More about this date

Wednesday, January 2, 1924 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 8, 1923 to the new moon of January 6, 1924, a cycle of 29.47 days.