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The Moon on Monday, January 15, 1951: First Quarter, 55% lit

Waxing · 54.8% lit · ♈︎ Aries 29°

First Quarter at

00:23UTC

Moon phase on January 15, 1951First Quarter

Monday 15 January 1951399,928 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, January 15, 1951, the Moon was a First Quarter: 54.8% of its visible face lit, 7.7 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

54.8%Illumination at noon UTC
7.7 dMoon age
399,928 km248,503 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (30°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 15, 1951 is on Tuesday, January 23, 1951 at 04:47 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 7, 1951 at 20:10 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, January 7, 195120:10
First Quarter (this day)Monday, January 15, 195100:23
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, January 23, 195104:47

The Moon around January 15

More about this date

Monday, January 15, 1951 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 7, 1951 to the new moon of February 6, 1951, a cycle of 29.49 days.