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The Moon on Tuesday, January 29, 1946: Waning Crescent, 14% lit

Waning · 13.6% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 25°

Moon age

26.0days

Moon phase on January 29, 1946Waning Crescent

Tuesday 29 January 1946398,525 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 29, 1946, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 13.6% of its visible face lit, 26.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

13.6%Illumination at noon UTC
26.0 dMoon age
398,525 km247,632 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (26°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 29, 1946 is on Thursday, January 17, 1946 at 14:47 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, February 2, 1946 at 04:43 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, January 25, 194605:00
New Moon (after)Saturday, February 2, 194604:43

The Moon around January 29

More about this date

Tuesday, January 29, 1946 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 3, 1946 to the new moon of February 2, 1946, a cycle of 29.68 days.