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The Moon on Saturday, January 5, 1924: Waning Crescent, 2% lit

Waning · 1.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 29°

Moon age

28.4days

Moon phase on January 5, 1924Waning Crescent

Saturday 5 January 1924363,709 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, January 5, 1924, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.7% of its visible face lit, 28.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.7%Illumination at noon UTC
28.4 dMoon age
363,709 km225,998 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (30°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 5, 1924 is on Sunday, December 23, 1923 at 07:33 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 6, 1924 at 12:48 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around January 5

More about this date

Saturday, January 5, 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.