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The Moon on Sunday, January 20, 1963: Waning Crescent, 26% lit

Waning · 25.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 28°

Moon age

24.5days

Moon phase on January 20, 1963Waning Crescent

Sunday 20 January 1963398,063 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 20, 1963, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 25.9% of its visible face lit, 24.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

25.9%Illumination at noon UTC
24.5 dMoon age
398,063 km247,345 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (29°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 20, 1963 is on Wednesday, January 9, 1963 at 23:08 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 25, 1963 at 13:42 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, January 17, 196320:34
New Moon (after)Friday, January 25, 196313:42

The Moon around January 20

More about this date

Sunday, January 20, 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.