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The Moon on Friday, January 1, 1965: Waning Crescent, 2% lit

Waning · 1.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 26°

Moon age

28.4days

Moon phase on January 1, 1965Waning Crescent

Friday 1 January 1965406,161 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 1, 1965, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.7% of its visible face lit, 28.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.7%Illumination at noon UTC
28.4 dMoon age
406,161 km252,377 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (26°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 1, 1965 is on Saturday, December 19, 1964 at 02:41 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 2, 1965 at 21:07 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, December 25, 196419:27
New Moon (after)Saturday, January 2, 196521:07

The Moon around January 1

More about this date

Friday, January 1, 1965 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 4, 1964 to the new moon of January 2, 1965, a cycle of 29.83 days.