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The Moon on Sunday, January 25, 1959: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.3% lit · ♌︎ Leo 13°

Moon age

16.3days

Moon phase on January 25, 1959Waning Gibbous

Sunday 25 January 1959379,872 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 25, 1959, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 16.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
16.3 dMoon age
379,872 km236,041 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (13°)
31.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 25, 1959 is on Saturday, January 24, 1959 at 19:33 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, February 7, 1959 at 19:22 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, January 24, 195919:33
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, January 31, 195919:07

The Moon around January 25

More about this date

Sunday, January 25, 1959 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 9, 1959 to the new moon of February 7, 1959, a cycle of 29.58 days.