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The Moon on Thursday, January 1, 1948: Waning Gibbous, 71% lit

Waning · 71.4% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 14°

Moon age

20.0days

Moon phase on January 1, 1948Waning Gibbous

Thursday 1 January 1948368,475 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, January 1, 1948, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 71.4% of its visible face lit, 20.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

71.4%Illumination at noon UTC
20.0 dMoon age
368,475 km228,960 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (15°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 1, 1948 is on Saturday, December 27, 1947 at 20:27 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 11, 1948 at 07:45 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, December 27, 194720:27
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, January 3, 194811:13

The Moon around January 1

More about this date

Thursday, January 1, 1948 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 12, 1947 to the new moon of January 11, 1948, a cycle of 29.79 days.