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The Moon on Friday, January 5, 1962: Waning Crescent, 2% lit

Waning · 1.5% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 00°

Moon age

28.5days

Moon phase on January 5, 1962Waning Crescent

Friday 5 January 1962369,767 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 5, 1962, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.5% of its visible face lit, 28.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.5%Illumination at noon UTC
28.5 dMoon age
369,767 km229,763 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (1°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 5, 1962 is on Friday, December 22, 1961 at 00:42 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 6, 1962 at 12:35 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, December 30, 196103:57
New Moon (after)Saturday, January 6, 196212:35

The Moon around January 5

More about this date

Friday, January 5, 1962 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 7, 1961 to the new moon of January 6, 1962, a cycle of 29.53 days.