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The Moon on Sunday, January 24, 1960: Waning Crescent, 19% lit

Waning · 19.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 11°

Moon age

25.7days

Moon phase on January 24, 1960Waning Crescent

Sunday 24 January 1960364,432 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 24, 1960, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 19.4% of its visible face lit, 25.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

19.4%Illumination at noon UTC
25.7 dMoon age
364,432 km226,447 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (12°)
32.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 24, 1960 is on Wednesday, January 13, 1960 at 23:51 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 28, 1960 at 06:15 UTC, 4 days later.

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

The Moon around January 24

More about this date

Sunday, January 24, 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.