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The Moon on Tuesday, January 16, 1968: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.1% lit · ♌︎ Leo 05°

Moon age

16.3days

Moon phase on January 16, 1968Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 16 January 1968385,679 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 16, 1968, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.1% of its visible face lit, 16.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.1%Illumination at noon UTC
16.3 dMoon age
385,679 km239,650 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (5°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 16, 1968 is on Monday, January 15, 1968 at 16:11 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 29, 1968 at 16:29 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, January 15, 196816:11
Last Quarter (after)Monday, January 22, 196819:38

The Moon around January 16

More about this date

Tuesday, January 16, 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.