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The Moon on Thursday, January 8, 1959: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.9% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 07°

Moon age

28.8days

Moon phase on January 8, 1959Waning Crescent

Thursday 8 January 1959370,843 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, January 8, 1959, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.9% of its visible face lit, 28.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.9%Illumination at noon UTC
28.8 dMoon age
370,843 km230,431 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (8°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 8, 1959 is on Friday, December 26, 1958 at 03:54 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 9, 1959 at 05:34 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, January 2, 195910:51
New Moon (after)Friday, January 9, 195905:34

The Moon around January 8

More about this date

Thursday, January 8, 1959 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 10, 1958 to the new moon of January 9, 1959, a cycle of 29.51 days.