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The Moon on Sunday, January 23, 1927: Waning Gibbous, 74% lit

Waning · 73.7% lit · ♎︎ Libra 04°

Moon age

19.6days

Moon phase on January 23, 1927Waning Gibbous

Sunday 23 January 1927405,099 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 23, 1927, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 73.7% of its visible face lit, 19.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

73.7%Illumination at noon UTC
19.6 dMoon age
405,099 km251,717 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (4°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 23, 1927 is on Monday, January 17, 1927 at 22:27 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, February 2, 1927 at 08:54 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, January 17, 192722:27
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, January 26, 192702:05

The Moon around January 23

More about this date

Sunday, January 23, 1927 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 3, 1927 to the new moon of February 2, 1927, a cycle of 29.52 days.