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The Moon on Tuesday, January 9, 1945: Waning Crescent, 23% lit

Waning · 23.1% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 21°

Moon age

24.9days

Moon phase on January 9, 1945Waning Crescent

Tuesday 9 January 1945395,960 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 9, 1945, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 23.1% of its visible face lit, 24.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

23.1%Illumination at noon UTC
24.9 dMoon age
395,960 km246,038 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (22°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 9, 1945 is on Friday, December 29, 1944 at 14:38 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 14, 1945 at 05:07 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, January 6, 194512:48
New Moon (after)Sunday, January 14, 194505:07

The Moon around January 9

More about this date

Tuesday, January 9, 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.