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The Moon on Thursday, January 24, 1929: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 23°

Moon age

13.5days

Moon phase on January 24, 1929Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 24 January 1929362,405 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, January 24, 1929, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.0% of its visible face lit, 13.5 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.0%Illumination at noon UTC
13.5 dMoon age
362,405 km225,188 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (23°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 24, 1929 is on Friday, January 25, 1929 at 07:09 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 11, 1929 at 00:28 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Friday, January 18, 192915:15
Full Moon (after)Friday, January 25, 192907:09

The Moon around January 24

More about this date

Thursday, January 24, 1929 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 11, 1929 to the new moon of February 9, 1929, a cycle of 29.73 days.