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The Moon on Sunday, January 21, 1945: Waxing Gibbous, 56% lit

Waxing · 55.9% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 07°

Moon age

7.3days

Moon phase on January 21, 1945Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 21 January 1945372,513 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 21, 1945, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 55.9% of its visible face lit, 7.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

55.9%Illumination at noon UTC
7.3 dMoon age
372,513 km231,469 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (8°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 21, 1945 is on Sunday, January 28, 1945 at 06:41 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 14, 1945 at 05:07 UTC, 7 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, January 20, 194523:48
Full Moon (after)Sunday, January 28, 194506:41

The Moon around January 21

More about this date

Sunday, January 21, 1945 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 14, 1945 to the new moon of February 12, 1945, a cycle of 29.52 days.