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The Moon on Wednesday, January 14, 1942: Waning Crescent, 8% lit

Waning · 8.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 20°

Moon age

27.1days

Moon phase on January 14, 1942Waning Crescent

Wednesday 14 January 1942362,459 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 14, 1942, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 8.3% of its visible face lit, 27.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

8.3%Illumination at noon UTC
27.1 dMoon age
362,459 km225,222 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (21°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 14, 1942 is on Friday, January 2, 1942 at 15:42 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 16, 1942 at 21:32 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, January 10, 194206:05
New Moon (after)Friday, January 16, 194221:32

The Moon around January 14

More about this date

Wednesday, January 14, 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.