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The Moon on Sunday, January 14, 1968: Waxing Gibbous, 98% lit

Waxing · 98.4% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 09°

Moon age

14.3days

Moon phase on January 14, 1968Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 14 January 1968393,030 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 14, 1968, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 98.4% of its visible face lit, 14.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

98.4%Illumination at noon UTC
14.3 dMoon age
393,030 km244,217 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (10°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 14, 1968 is on Monday, January 15, 1968 at 16:11 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, December 31, 1967 at 03:39 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, January 7, 196814:23
Full Moon (after)Monday, January 15, 196816:11

The Moon around January 14

More about this date

Sunday, January 14, 1968 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 31, 1967 to the new moon of January 29, 1968, a cycle of 29.54 days.