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The Moon on Friday, January 21, 1949: Last Quarter, 51% lit

Waning · 51.1% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 00°

Last Quarter at

14:08UTC

Moon phase on January 21, 1949Last Quarter

Friday 21 January 1949373,409 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 21, 1949, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 51.1% of its visible face lit, 22.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

51.1%Illumination at noon UTC
22.1 dMoon age
373,409 km232,025 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (0°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 21, 1949 is on Friday, January 14, 1949 at 22:00 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 29, 1949 at 02:42 UTC, 8 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, January 14, 194922:00
Last Quarter (this day)Friday, January 21, 194914:08
New Moon (after)Saturday, January 29, 194902:42

The Moon around January 21

More about this date

Friday, January 21, 1949 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 30, 1948 to the new moon of January 29, 1949, a cycle of 29.71 days.