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The Moon on Wednesday, January 23, 1963: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 5.1% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 06°

Moon age

27.5days

Moon phase on January 23, 1963Waning Crescent

Wednesday 23 January 1963384,130 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 23, 1963, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 5.1% of its visible face lit, 27.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

5.1%Illumination at noon UTC
27.5 dMoon age
384,130 km238,687 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (7°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 23, 1963 is on Wednesday, January 9, 1963 at 23:08 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 25, 1963 at 13:42 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around January 23

More about this date

Wednesday, January 23, 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.