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The Moon on Monday, January 21, 1963: Waning Crescent, 18% lit

Waning · 17.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 11°

Moon age

25.5days

Moon phase on January 21, 1963Waning Crescent

Monday 21 January 1963393,869 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, January 21, 1963, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 17.7% of its visible face lit, 25.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

17.7%Illumination at noon UTC
25.5 dMoon age
393,869 km244,739 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (11°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 21, 1963 is on Wednesday, January 9, 1963 at 23:08 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 25, 1963 at 13:42 UTC, 4 days later.

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

The Moon around January 21

More about this date

Monday, January 21, 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.