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The Moon on Sunday, January 1, 1939: Waxing Gibbous, 75% lit

Waxing · 75.5% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 10°

Moon age

10.7days

Moon phase on January 1, 1939Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 1 January 1939377,263 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 1, 1939, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 75.5% of its visible face lit, 10.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

75.5%Illumination at noon UTC
10.7 dMoon age
377,263 km234,420 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (11°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 1, 1939 is on Thursday, January 5, 1939 at 21:30 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 21, 1938 at 18:07 UTC, 11 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, December 29, 193822:53
Full Moon (after)Thursday, January 5, 193921:30

The Moon around January 1

More about this date

Sunday, January 1, 1939 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 21, 1938 to the new moon of January 20, 1939, a cycle of 29.81 days.