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The Moon on Wednesday, January 19, 1955: Waning Crescent, 19% lit

Waning · 18.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 07°

Moon age

25.2days

Moon phase on January 19, 1955Waning Crescent

Wednesday 19 January 1955403,772 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 19, 1955, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 18.8% of its visible face lit, 25.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

18.8%Illumination at noon UTC
25.2 dMoon age
403,772 km250,892 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (7°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 19, 1955 is on Saturday, January 8, 1955 at 12:44 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 24, 1955 at 01:07 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, January 15, 195522:14
New Moon (after)Monday, January 24, 195501:07

The Moon around January 19

More about this date

Wednesday, January 19, 1955 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 25, 1954 to the new moon of January 24, 1955, a cycle of 29.73 days.