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The Moon on Thursday, January 25, 1968: Waning Crescent, 21% lit

Waning · 21.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 09°

Moon age

25.3days

Moon phase on January 25, 1968Waning Crescent

Thursday 25 January 1968369,356 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, January 25, 1968, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 21.3% of its visible face lit, 25.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

21.3%Illumination at noon UTC
25.3 dMoon age
369,356 km229,507 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (10°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 25, 1968 is on Monday, January 15, 1968 at 16:11 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 29, 1968 at 16:29 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, January 22, 196819:38
New Moon (after)Monday, January 29, 196816:29

The Moon around January 25

More about this date

Thursday, January 25, 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.