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The Moon on Saturday, January 18, 1936: Waning Crescent, 34% lit

Waning · 34.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 15°

Moon age

23.8days

Moon phase on January 18, 1936Waning Crescent

Saturday 18 January 1936396,946 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, January 18, 1936, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 34.2% of its visible face lit, 23.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

34.2%Illumination at noon UTC
23.8 dMoon age
396,946 km246,651 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (16°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 18, 1936 is on Wednesday, January 8, 1936 at 18:15 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 24, 1936 at 07:18 UTC, 6 days later.

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

The Moon around January 18

More about this date

Saturday, January 18, 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.