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The Moon on Sunday, January 7, 1940: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 4.6% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 21°

Moon age

27.6days

Moon phase on January 7, 1940Waning Crescent

Sunday 7 January 1940388,788 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 7, 1940, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.6% of its visible face lit, 27.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.6%Illumination at noon UTC
27.6 dMoon age
388,788 km241,581 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (22°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 7, 1940 is on Tuesday, December 26, 1939 at 11:29 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 9, 1940 at 13:53 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, January 2, 194004:56
New Moon (after)Tuesday, January 9, 194013:53

The Moon around January 7

More about this date

Sunday, January 7, 1940 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 10, 1939 to the new moon of January 9, 1940, a cycle of 29.67 days.