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The Moon on Tuesday, January 21, 1941: Waning Crescent, 38% lit

Waning · 37.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 15°

Moon age

23.6days

Moon phase on January 21, 1941Waning Crescent

Tuesday 21 January 1941371,211 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 21, 1941, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 37.9% of its visible face lit, 23.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

37.9%Illumination at noon UTC
23.6 dMoon age
371,211 km230,660 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (15°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 21, 1941 is on Monday, January 13, 1941 at 11:04 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 27, 1941 at 11:03 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, January 20, 194110:02
New Moon (after)Monday, January 27, 194111:03

The Moon around January 21

More about this date

Tuesday, January 21, 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.