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The Moon on Sunday, January 7, 1951: New Moon, 0% lit

Waning · 0.3% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 11°

New Moon at

20:10UTC

Moon phase on January 7, 1951New Moon

Sunday 7 January 1951360,474 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 7, 1951, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.3% of its visible face lit, 29.1 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.3%Illumination at noon UTC
29.1 dMoon age
360,474 km223,988 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (12°)
33.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 7, 1951 is on Sunday, December 24, 1950 at 10:23 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 7, 1951 at 20:10 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, January 1, 195105:11
New Moon (this day)Sunday, January 7, 195120:10
First Quarter (after)Monday, January 15, 195100:23

The Moon around January 7

More about this date

Sunday, January 7, 1951 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 9, 1950 to the new moon of January 7, 1951, a cycle of 29.45 days.