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The Moon on Sunday, January 5, 1941: First Quarter, 49% lit

Waxing · 49.5% lit · ♈︎ Aries 14°

First Quarter at

13:40UTC

Moon phase on January 5, 1941First Quarter

Sunday 5 January 1941403,971 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 5, 1941, the Moon was a First Quarter: 49.5% of its visible face lit, 7.6 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

49.5%Illumination at noon UTC
7.6 dMoon age
403,971 km251,016 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (14°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 5, 1941 is on Monday, January 13, 1941 at 11:04 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, December 28, 1940 at 20:56 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, December 28, 194020:56
First Quarter (this day)Sunday, January 5, 194113:40
Full Moon (after)Monday, January 13, 194111:04

The Moon around January 5

More about this date

Sunday, January 5, 1941 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 28, 1940 to the new moon of January 27, 1941, a cycle of 29.59 days.