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The Moon on Tuesday, January 28, 1936: Waxing Crescent, 23% lit

Waxing · 23.0% lit · ♈︎ Aries 04°

Moon age

4.2days

Moon phase on January 28, 1936Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 28 January 1936365,952 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 28, 1936, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 23.0% of its visible face lit, 4.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

23.0%Illumination at noon UTC
4.2 dMoon age
365,952 km227,392 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (4°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 28, 1936 is on Friday, February 7, 1936 at 11:19 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 24, 1936 at 07:18 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, January 24, 193607:18
First Quarter (after)Thursday, January 30, 193623:36

The Moon around January 28

More about this date

Tuesday, January 28, 1936 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 24, 1936 to the new moon of February 22, 1936, a cycle of 29.48 days.