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The Moon on Monday, January 20, 1936: Waning Crescent, 17% lit

Waning · 16.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 11°

Moon age

25.8days

Moon phase on January 20, 1936Waning Crescent

Monday 20 January 1936386,900 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, January 20, 1936, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 16.8% of its visible face lit, 25.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

16.8%Illumination at noon UTC
25.8 dMoon age
386,900 km240,408 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (11°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 20, 1936 is on Wednesday, January 8, 1936 at 18:15 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 24, 1936 at 07:18 UTC, 4 days later.

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

The Moon around January 20

More about this date

Monday, January 20, 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.