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The Moon on Wednesday, January 22, 1936: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.2% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 07°

Moon age

27.8days

Moon phase on January 22, 1936Waning Crescent

Wednesday 22 January 1936375,938 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 22, 1936, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.2% of its visible face lit, 27.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.2%Illumination at noon UTC
27.8 dMoon age
375,938 km233,597 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (8°)
31.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 22, 1936 is on Wednesday, January 8, 1936 at 18:15 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 24, 1936 at 07:18 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around January 22

More about this date

Wednesday, January 22, 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.