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The Moon on Tuesday, January 8, 1929: Waning Crescent, 6% lit

Waning · 5.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 20°

Moon age

27.3days

Moon phase on January 8, 1929Waning Crescent

Tuesday 8 January 1929405,698 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 8, 1929, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.7% of its visible face lit, 27.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.7%Illumination at noon UTC
27.3 dMoon age
405,698 km252,089 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (20°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 8, 1929 is on Wednesday, December 26, 1928 at 19:55 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 11, 1929 at 00:28 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, January 2, 192918:44
New Moon (after)Friday, January 11, 192900:28

The Moon around January 8

More about this date

Tuesday, January 8, 1929 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 12, 1928 to the new moon of January 11, 1929, a cycle of 29.81 days.