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The Moon on Tuesday, January 21, 1936: Waning Crescent, 10% lit

Waning · 9.6% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 24°

Moon age

26.8days

Moon phase on January 21, 1936Waning Crescent

Tuesday 21 January 1936381,318 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 21, 1936, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 9.6% of its visible face lit, 26.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

9.6%Illumination at noon UTC
26.8 dMoon age
381,318 km236,940 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (24°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 21, 1936 is on Wednesday, January 8, 1936 at 18:15 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 24, 1936 at 07:18 UTC, 3 days later.

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

The Moon around January 21

More about this date

Tuesday, January 21, 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.