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The Moon on Thursday, January 18, 1962: Waxing Gibbous, 95% lit

Waxing · 95.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 02°

Moon age

12.0days

Moon phase on January 18, 1962Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 18 January 1962393,978 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, January 18, 1962, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 95.0% of its visible face lit, 12.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

95.0%Illumination at noon UTC
12.0 dMoon age
393,978 km244,807 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (2°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 18, 1962 is on Saturday, January 20, 1962 at 18:17 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 6, 1962 at 12:35 UTC, 12 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, January 13, 196205:01
Full Moon (after)Saturday, January 20, 196218:17

The Moon around January 18

More about this date

Thursday, January 18, 1962 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 6, 1962 to the new moon of February 5, 1962, a cycle of 29.48 days.