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The Moon on Sunday, January 13, 1963: Waning Gibbous, 87% lit

Waning · 87.2% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 04°

Moon age

17.5days

Moon phase on January 13, 1963Waning Gibbous

Sunday 13 January 1963395,817 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 13, 1963, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 87.2% of its visible face lit, 17.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

87.2%Illumination at noon UTC
17.5 dMoon age
395,817 km245,949 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (5°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 13, 1963 is on Wednesday, January 9, 1963 at 23:08 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 25, 1963 at 13:42 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Wednesday, January 9, 196323:08
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, January 17, 196320:34

The Moon around January 13

More about this date

Sunday, January 13, 1963 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 26, 1962 to the new moon of January 25, 1963, a cycle of 29.61 days.