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The Moon on Tuesday, January 3, 1933: First Quarter, 48% lit

Waxing · 48.4% lit · ♈︎ Aries 10°

First Quarter at

16:24UTC

Moon phase on January 3, 1933First Quarter

Tuesday 3 January 1933397,879 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 3, 1933, the Moon was a First Quarter: 48.4% of its visible face lit, 7.0 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

48.4%Illumination at noon UTC
7.0 dMoon age
397,879 km247,231 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (11°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 3, 1933 is on Wednesday, January 11, 1933 at 20:36 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, December 27, 1932 at 11:22 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, December 27, 193211:22
First Quarter (this day)Tuesday, January 3, 193316:24
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, January 11, 193320:36

The Moon around January 3

More about this date

Tuesday, January 3, 1933 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 27, 1932 to the new moon of January 25, 1933, a cycle of 29.50 days.