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The Moon on Tuesday, January 30, 1962: Waning Crescent, 35% lit

Waning · 35.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 27°

Moon age

24.0days

Moon phase on January 30, 1962Waning Crescent

Tuesday 30 January 1962386,773 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 30, 1962, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 35.0% of its visible face lit, 24.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

35.0%Illumination at noon UTC
24.0 dMoon age
386,773 km240,330 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (28°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 30, 1962 is on Saturday, January 20, 1962 at 18:17 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, February 5, 1962 at 00:10 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, January 28, 196223:37
New Moon (after)Monday, February 5, 196200:10

The Moon around January 30

More about this date

Tuesday, January 30, 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.