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The Moon on Tuesday, January 2, 1945: Waning Gibbous, 85% lit

Waning · 84.9% lit · ♌︎ Leo 27°

Moon age

17.9days

Moon phase on January 2, 1945Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 2 January 1945397,909 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 2, 1945, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 84.9% of its visible face lit, 17.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

84.9%Illumination at noon UTC
17.9 dMoon age
397,909 km247,249 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (28°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 2, 1945 is on Friday, December 29, 1944 at 14:38 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 14, 1945 at 05:07 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, December 29, 194414:38
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, January 6, 194512:48

The Moon around January 2

More about this date

Tuesday, January 2, 1945 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 15, 1944 to the new moon of January 14, 1945, a cycle of 29.61 days.