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The Moon on Sunday, January 23, 1949: Waning Crescent, 30% lit

Waning · 29.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 27°

Moon age

24.1days

Moon phase on January 23, 1949Waning Crescent

Sunday 23 January 1949381,077 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 23, 1949, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 29.8% of its visible face lit, 24.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

29.8%Illumination at noon UTC
24.1 dMoon age
381,077 km236,790 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (27°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 23, 1949 is on Friday, January 14, 1949 at 22:00 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 29, 1949 at 02:42 UTC, 6 days later.

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

The Moon around January 23

More about this date

Sunday, January 23, 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.