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The Moon on Friday, January 17, 1958: Waning Crescent, 6% lit

Waning · 6.2% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 28°

Moon age

27.2days

Moon phase on January 17, 1958Waning Crescent

Friday 17 January 1958386,595 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 17, 1958, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 6.2% of its visible face lit, 27.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

6.2%Illumination at noon UTC
27.2 dMoon age
386,595 km240,219 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (28°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 17, 1958 is on Sunday, January 5, 1958 at 20:09 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 19, 1958 at 22:08 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, January 12, 195814:01
New Moon (after)Sunday, January 19, 195822:08

The Moon around January 17

More about this date

Friday, January 17, 1958 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 21, 1957 to the new moon of January 19, 1958, a cycle of 29.66 days.