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The Moon on Friday, January 17, 1936: Waning Crescent, 44% lit

Waning · 43.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 03°

Moon age

22.8days

Moon phase on January 17, 1936Waning Crescent

Friday 17 January 1936400,694 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 17, 1936, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 43.7% of its visible face lit, 22.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

43.7%Illumination at noon UTC
22.8 dMoon age
400,694 km248,979 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (4°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 17, 1936 is on Wednesday, January 8, 1936 at 18:15 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 24, 1936 at 07:18 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, January 16, 193619:41
New Moon (after)Friday, January 24, 193607:18

The Moon around January 17

More about this date

Friday, January 17, 1936 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 25, 1935 to the new moon of January 24, 1936, a cycle of 29.56 days.