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The Moon on Tuesday, January 22, 1963: Waning Crescent, 11% lit

Waning · 10.6% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 23°

Moon age

26.5days

Moon phase on January 22, 1963Waning Crescent

Tuesday 22 January 1963389,101 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 22, 1963, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 10.6% of its visible face lit, 26.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

10.6%Illumination at noon UTC
26.5 dMoon age
389,101 km241,776 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (24°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 22, 1963 is on Wednesday, January 9, 1963 at 23:08 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 25, 1963 at 13:42 UTC, 3 days later.

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

The Moon around January 22

More about this date

Tuesday, January 22, 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.