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The Moon on Friday, January 22, 1960: Waning Crescent, 40% lit

Waning · 40.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 12°

Moon age

23.7days

Moon phase on January 22, 1960Waning Crescent

Friday 22 January 1960371,245 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 22, 1960, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 40.4% of its visible face lit, 23.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

40.4%Illumination at noon UTC
23.7 dMoon age
371,245 km230,681 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (13°)
32.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 22, 1960 is on Wednesday, January 13, 1960 at 23:51 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 28, 1960 at 06:15 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, January 21, 196015:01
New Moon (after)Thursday, January 28, 196006:15

The Moon around January 22

More about this date

Friday, January 22, 1960 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 29, 1959 to the new moon of January 28, 1960, a cycle of 29.46 days.