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The Moon on Sunday, January 9, 1944: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 07°

Moon age

13.3days

Moon phase on January 9, 1944Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 9 January 1944398,790 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 9, 1944, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.1% of its visible face lit, 13.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.1%Illumination at noon UTC
13.3 dMoon age
398,790 km247,797 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (8°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 9, 1944 is on Monday, January 10, 1944 at 10:10 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 27, 1943 at 03:50 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, January 2, 194420:04
Full Moon (after)Monday, January 10, 194410:10

The Moon around January 9

More about this date

Sunday, January 9, 1944 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 27, 1943 to the new moon of January 25, 1944, a cycle of 29.48 days.