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The Moon on Tuesday, January 13, 1953: Waning Crescent, 6% lit

Waning · 6.1% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 24°

Moon age

27.4days

Moon phase on January 13, 1953Waning Crescent

Tuesday 13 January 1953369,916 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 13, 1953, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 6.1% of its visible face lit, 27.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

6.1%Illumination at noon UTC
27.4 dMoon age
369,916 km229,855 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (25°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 13, 1953 is on Wednesday, December 31, 1952 at 05:06 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 15, 1953 at 14:08 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around January 13

More about this date

Tuesday, January 13, 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.