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The Moon on Monday, January 22, 1951: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.4% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 23°

Moon age

14.7days

Moon phase on January 22, 1951Waxing Gibbous

Monday 22 January 1951399,107 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, January 22, 1951, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.4% of its visible face lit, 14.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.4%Illumination at noon UTC
14.7 dMoon age
399,107 km247,994 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (24°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 22, 1951 is on Tuesday, January 23, 1951 at 04:47 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 7, 1951 at 20:10 UTC, 15 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, January 15, 195100:23
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, January 23, 195104:47

The Moon around January 22

More about this date

Monday, January 22, 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.