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The Moon on Monday, January 5, 1948: Waning Crescent, 29% lit

Waning · 29.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 08°

Moon age

24.0days

Moon phase on January 5, 1948Waning Crescent

Monday 5 January 1948388,492 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, January 5, 1948, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 29.3% of its visible face lit, 24.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

29.3%Illumination at noon UTC
24.0 dMoon age
388,492 km241,398 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (9°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 5, 1948 is on Saturday, December 27, 1947 at 20:27 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 11, 1948 at 07:45 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, January 3, 194811:13
New Moon (after)Sunday, January 11, 194807:45

The Moon around January 5

More about this date

Monday, January 5, 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.