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The Moon on Saturday, January 22, 1949: Waning Crescent, 40% lit

Waning · 40.1% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 13°

Moon age

23.1days

Moon phase on January 22, 1949Waning Crescent

Saturday 22 January 1949377,227 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, January 22, 1949, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 40.1% of its visible face lit, 23.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

40.1%Illumination at noon UTC
23.1 dMoon age
377,227 km234,398 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (14°)
31.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

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

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, January 21, 194914:08
New Moon (after)Saturday, January 29, 194902:42

The Moon around January 22

More about this date

Saturday, January 22, 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.