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The Moon on Saturday, January 6, 1934: Waning Gibbous, 74% lit

Waning · 73.7% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 17°

Moon age

20.4days

Moon phase on January 6, 1934Waning Gibbous

Saturday 6 January 1934394,813 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, January 6, 1934, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 73.7% of its visible face lit, 20.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

73.7%Illumination at noon UTC
20.4 dMoon age
394,813 km245,325 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (17°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 6, 1934 is on Sunday, December 31, 1933 at 20:54 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 15, 1934 at 13:37 UTC, 9 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, December 31, 193320:54
Last Quarter (after)Monday, January 8, 193421:36

The Moon around January 6

More about this date

Saturday, January 6, 1934 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 17, 1933 to the new moon of January 15, 1934, a cycle of 29.45 days.