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The Moon on Sunday, January 11, 1953: Waning Crescent, 21% lit

Waning · 20.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 27°

Moon age

25.4days

Moon phase on January 11, 1953Waning Crescent

Sunday 11 January 1953381,647 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 11, 1953, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 20.8% of its visible face lit, 25.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

20.8%Illumination at noon UTC
25.4 dMoon age
381,647 km237,145 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (27°)
31.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 11, 1953 is on Wednesday, December 31, 1952 at 05:06 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 15, 1953 at 14:08 UTC, 4 days later.

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

The Moon around January 11

More about this date

Sunday, January 11, 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.