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The Moon on Thursday, January 15, 1942: Waning Crescent, 3% lit

Waning · 3.0% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 05°

Moon age

28.1days

Moon phase on January 15, 1942Waning Crescent

Thursday 15 January 1942362,581 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, January 15, 1942, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.0% of its visible face lit, 28.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.0%Illumination at noon UTC
28.1 dMoon age
362,581 km225,298 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (6°)
32.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

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

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

The Moon around January 15

More about this date

Thursday, January 15, 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.