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The Moon on Wednesday, January 18, 1939: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 3.9% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 05°

Moon age

27.7days

Moon phase on January 18, 1939Waning Crescent

Wednesday 18 January 1939404,717 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 18, 1939, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.9% of its visible face lit, 27.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.9%Illumination at noon UTC
27.7 dMoon age
404,717 km251,479 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (5°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 18, 1939 is on Thursday, January 5, 1939 at 21:30 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 20, 1939 at 13:27 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around January 18

More about this date

Wednesday, January 18, 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.