Skip to content
The Moon on Thursday, January 9, 1930: Waxing Gibbous, 64% lit

Waxing · 64.3% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 04°

Moon age

9.5days

Moon phase on January 9, 1930Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 9 January 1930380,005 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, January 9, 1930, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 64.3% of its visible face lit, 9.5 days after the new moon and growing each night.

64.3%Illumination at noon UTC
9.5 dMoon age
380,005 km236,124 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (5°)
31.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 9, 1930 is on Tuesday, January 14, 1930 at 22:21 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 30, 1929 at 23:42 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Wednesday, January 8, 193003:11
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, January 14, 193022:21

The Moon around January 9

More about this date

Thursday, January 9, 1930 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 30, 1929 to the new moon of January 29, 1930, a cycle of 29.81 days.