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The Moon on Friday, January 12, 1945: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 3.6% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 00°

Moon age

27.9days

Moon phase on January 12, 1945Waning Crescent

Friday 12 January 1945381,324 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 12, 1945, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.6% of its visible face lit, 27.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.6%Illumination at noon UTC
27.9 dMoon age
381,324 km236,943 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (0°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

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

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

The Moon around January 12

More about this date

Friday, January 12, 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.