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The Moon on Wednesday, January 23, 1957: Waning Crescent, 44% lit

Waning · 43.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 10°

Moon age

22.4days

Moon phase on January 23, 1957Waning Crescent

Wednesday 23 January 1957384,878 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 23, 1957, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 43.9% of its visible face lit, 22.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

43.9%Illumination at noon UTC
22.4 dMoon age
384,878 km239,152 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (10°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 23, 1957 is on Wednesday, January 16, 1957 at 06:21 UTC, 7 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, January 30, 1957 at 21:25 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, January 22, 195721:48
New Moon (after)Wednesday, January 30, 195721:25

The Moon around January 23

More about this date

Wednesday, January 23, 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.