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The Moon on Wednesday, January 25, 1956: Waxing Gibbous, 93% lit

Waxing · 93.4% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 04°

Moon age

12.4days

Moon phase on January 25, 1956Waxing Gibbous

Wednesday 25 January 1956359,679 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 25, 1956, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 93.4% of its visible face lit, 12.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

93.4%Illumination at noon UTC
12.4 dMoon age
359,679 km223,494 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (5°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 25, 1956 is on Friday, January 27, 1956 at 14:40 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 13, 1956 at 03:01 UTC, 12 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Friday, January 20, 195622:58
Full Moon (after)Friday, January 27, 195614:40

The Moon around January 25

More about this date

Wednesday, January 25, 1956 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 13, 1956 to the new moon of February 11, 1956, a cycle of 29.78 days.