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The Moon on Tuesday, January 27, 1931: First Quarter, 55% lit

Waxing · 55.1% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 12°

First Quarter at

00:06UTC

Moon phase on January 27, 1931First Quarter

Tuesday 27 January 1931392,613 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 27, 1931, the Moon was a First Quarter: 55.1% of its visible face lit, 8.7 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

55.1%Illumination at noon UTC
8.7 dMoon age
392,613 km243,959 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (12°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 27, 1931 is on Tuesday, February 3, 1931 at 00:26 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 18, 1931 at 18:36 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, January 18, 193118:36
First Quarter (this day)Tuesday, January 27, 193100:06
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, February 3, 193100:26

The Moon around January 27

More about this date

Tuesday, January 27, 1931 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 18, 1931 to the new moon of February 17, 1931, a cycle of 29.77 days.