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The Moon on Wednesday, January 19, 1966: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.3% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 05°

Moon age

27.6days

Moon phase on January 19, 1966Waning Crescent

Wednesday 19 January 1966400,585 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 19, 1966, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.3% of its visible face lit, 27.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.3%Illumination at noon UTC
27.6 dMoon age
400,585 km248,912 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (5°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 19, 1966 is on Friday, January 7, 1966 at 05:16 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, January 21, 1966 at 15:46 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, January 13, 196620:00
New Moon (after)Friday, January 21, 196615:46

The Moon around January 19

More about this date

Wednesday, January 19, 1966 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 22, 1965 to the new moon of January 21, 1966, a cycle of 29.78 days.