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The Moon on Saturday, January 10, 1948: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.7% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 10°

Moon age

29.0days

Moon phase on January 10, 1948Waning Crescent

Saturday 10 January 1948404,076 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, January 10, 1948, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.7% of its visible face lit, 29.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.7%Illumination at noon UTC
29.0 dMoon age
404,076 km251,081 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (10°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 10, 1948 is on Saturday, December 27, 1947 at 20:27 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 11, 1948 at 07:45 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around January 10

More about this date

Saturday, January 10, 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.