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The Moon on Monday, January 9, 1956: Waning Crescent, 11% lit

Waning · 11.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 09°

Moon age

26.2days

Moon phase on January 9, 1956Waning Crescent

Monday 9 January 1956405,138 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, January 9, 1956, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 11.3% of its visible face lit, 26.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

11.3%Illumination at noon UTC
26.2 dMoon age
405,138 km251,741 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (9°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 9, 1956 is on Thursday, December 29, 1955 at 03:44 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 13, 1956 at 03:01 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, January 4, 195622:41
New Moon (after)Friday, January 13, 195603:01

The Moon around January 9

More about this date

Monday, January 9, 1956 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 14, 1955 to the new moon of January 13, 1956, a cycle of 29.83 days.