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The Moon on Friday, January 13, 1939: Waning Crescent, 40% lit

Waning · 40.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 03°

Moon age

22.7days

Moon phase on January 13, 1939Waning Crescent

Friday 13 January 1939387,517 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 13, 1939, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 40.2% of its visible face lit, 22.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

40.2%Illumination at noon UTC
22.7 dMoon age
387,517 km240,792 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (4°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 13, 1939 is on Thursday, January 5, 1939 at 21:30 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 20, 1939 at 13:27 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, January 12, 193913:11
New Moon (after)Friday, January 20, 193913:27

The Moon around January 13

More about this date

Friday, January 13, 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.