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The Moon on Saturday, January 3, 1942: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.2% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 21°

Moon age

16.1days

Moon phase on January 3, 1942Waning Gibbous

Saturday 3 January 1942398,724 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, January 3, 1942, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.2% of its visible face lit, 16.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.2%Illumination at noon UTC
16.1 dMoon age
398,724 km247,755 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (22°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 3, 1942 is on Friday, January 2, 1942 at 15:42 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 16, 1942 at 21:32 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, January 2, 194215:42
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, January 10, 194206:05

The Moon around January 3

More about this date

Saturday, January 3, 1942 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 18, 1941 to the new moon of January 16, 1942, a cycle of 29.47 days.