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The Moon on Wednesday, January 10, 1940: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 1.0% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 29°

Moon age

0.9days

Moon phase on January 10, 1940Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 10 January 1940398,427 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 10, 1940, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 1.0% of its visible face lit, 0.9 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.0%Illumination at noon UTC
0.9 dMoon age
398,427 km247,571 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (30°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 10, 1940 is on Wednesday, January 24, 1940 at 23:22 UTC, 14 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 9, 1940 at 13:53 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, January 9, 194013:53
First Quarter (after)Wednesday, January 17, 194018:21

The Moon around January 10

More about this date

Wednesday, January 10, 1940 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 9, 1940 to the new moon of February 8, 1940, a cycle of 29.74 days.