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The Moon on Friday, January 26, 1968: Waning Crescent, 13% lit

Waning · 12.7% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 24°

Moon age

26.3days

Moon phase on January 26, 1968Waning Crescent

Friday 26 January 1968370,113 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 26, 1968, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 12.7% of its visible face lit, 26.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

12.7%Illumination at noon UTC
26.3 dMoon age
370,113 km229,977 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (24°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 26, 1968 is on Monday, January 15, 1968 at 16:11 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 29, 1968 at 16:29 UTC, 3 days later.

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

The Moon around January 26

More about this date

Friday, January 26, 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.