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The Moon on Sunday, January 20, 1957: Waning Gibbous, 76% lit

Waning · 75.6% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 29°

Moon age

19.4days

Moon phase on January 20, 1957Waning Gibbous

Sunday 20 January 1957368,077 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 20, 1957, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 75.6% of its visible face lit, 19.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

75.6%Illumination at noon UTC
19.4 dMoon age
368,077 km228,712 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (29°)
32.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 20, 1957 is on Wednesday, January 16, 1957 at 06:21 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, January 30, 1957 at 21:25 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, January 16, 195706:21
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, January 22, 195721:48

The Moon around January 20

More about this date

Sunday, January 20, 1957 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 1, 1957 to the new moon of January 30, 1957, a cycle of 29.80 days.