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The Moon on Friday, January 9, 1953: Waning Crescent, 40% lit

Waning · 39.6% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 01°

Moon age

23.4days

Moon phase on January 9, 1953Waning Crescent

Friday 9 January 1953393,204 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 9, 1953, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 39.6% of its visible face lit, 23.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

39.6%Illumination at noon UTC
23.4 dMoon age
393,204 km244,326 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (1°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 9, 1953 is on Wednesday, December 31, 1952 at 05:06 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 15, 1953 at 14:08 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, January 8, 195310:09
New Moon (after)Thursday, January 15, 195314:08

The Moon around January 9

More about this date

Friday, January 9, 1953 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 17, 1952 to the new moon of January 15, 1953, a cycle of 29.50 days.