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The Moon on Sunday, January 21, 1962: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.5% lit · ♌︎ Leo 09°

Moon age

15.0days

Moon phase on January 21, 1962Waning Gibbous

Sunday 21 January 1962402,079 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 21, 1962, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.5% of its visible face lit, 15.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.5%Illumination at noon UTC
15.0 dMoon age
402,079 km249,840 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (9°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 21, 1962 is on Saturday, January 20, 1962 at 18:17 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, February 5, 1962 at 00:10 UTC, 15 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, January 20, 196218:17
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, January 28, 196223:37

The Moon around January 21

More about this date

Sunday, January 21, 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.