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The Moon on Friday, January 1, 1954: Waning Crescent, 14% lit

Waning · 13.6% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 27°

Moon age

26.0days

Moon phase on January 1, 1954Waning Crescent

Friday 1 January 1954395,586 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 1, 1954, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 13.6% of its visible face lit, 26.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

13.6%Illumination at noon UTC
26.0 dMoon age
395,586 km245,806 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (28°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 1, 1954 is on Sunday, December 20, 1953 at 11:44 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, January 5, 1954 at 02:21 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, December 28, 195305:44
New Moon (after)Tuesday, January 5, 195402:21

The Moon around January 1

More about this date

Friday, January 1, 1954 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 6, 1953 to the new moon of January 5, 1954, a cycle of 29.65 days.