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The Moon on Sunday, January 23, 1955: Waning Crescent, 0% lit

Waning · 0.3% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 26°

Moon age

29.2days

Moon phase on January 23, 1955Waning Crescent

Sunday 23 January 1955392,105 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 23, 1955, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.3% of its visible face lit, 29.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.3%Illumination at noon UTC
29.2 dMoon age
392,105 km243,642 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (26°)
30.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 23, 1955 is on Monday, February 7, 1955 at 01:43 UTC, 15 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 24, 1955 at 01:07 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around January 23

More about this date

Sunday, January 23, 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.