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The Moon on Friday, January 28, 1949: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.6% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 01°

Moon age

29.1days

Moon phase on January 28, 1949Waning Crescent

Friday 28 January 1949398,009 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 28, 1949, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.6% of its visible face lit, 29.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.6%Illumination at noon UTC
29.1 dMoon age
398,009 km247,311 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (1°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 28, 1949 is on Friday, January 14, 1949 at 22:00 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 29, 1949 at 02:42 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around January 28

More about this date

Friday, January 28, 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.