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The Moon on Friday, January 21, 1944: Waning Crescent, 22% lit

Waning · 22.0% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 04°

Moon age

25.3days

Moon phase on January 21, 1944Waning Crescent

Friday 21 January 1944377,543 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 21, 1944, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 22.0% of its visible face lit, 25.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

22.0%Illumination at noon UTC
25.3 dMoon age
377,543 km234,594 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (5°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 21, 1944 is on Monday, January 10, 1944 at 10:10 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 25, 1944 at 15:24 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, January 18, 194415:32
New Moon (after)Tuesday, January 25, 194415:24

The Moon around January 21

More about this date

Friday, January 21, 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.