Skip to content
The Moon on Wednesday, January 27, 1965: Waning Crescent, 22% lit

Waning · 22.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 11°

Moon age

24.6days

Moon phase on January 27, 1965Waning Crescent

Wednesday 27 January 1965403,788 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 27, 1965, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 22.3% of its visible face lit, 24.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

22.3%Illumination at noon UTC
24.6 dMoon age
403,788 km250,902 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (11°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 27, 1965 is on Sunday, January 17, 1965 at 13:37 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, February 1, 1965 at 16:36 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, January 24, 196511:07
New Moon (after)Monday, February 1, 196516:36

The Moon around January 27

More about this date

Wednesday, January 27, 1965 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 2, 1965 to the new moon of February 1, 1965, a cycle of 29.81 days.