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The Moon on Sunday, January 8, 1939: Waning Gibbous, 90% lit

Waning · 89.8% lit · ♌︎ Leo 24°

Moon age

17.7days

Moon phase on January 8, 1939Waning Gibbous

Sunday 8 January 1939360,954 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 8, 1939, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 89.8% of its visible face lit, 17.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

89.8%Illumination at noon UTC
17.7 dMoon age
360,954 km224,286 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (24°)
33.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 8, 1939 is on Thursday, January 5, 1939 at 21:30 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 20, 1939 at 13:27 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, January 5, 193921:30
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, January 12, 193913:11

The Moon around January 8

More about this date

Sunday, January 8, 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.