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The Moon on Sunday, January 28, 1968: Waning Crescent, 2% lit

Waning · 2.0% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 22°

Moon age

28.3days

Moon phase on January 28, 1968Waning Crescent

Sunday 28 January 1968374,228 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 28, 1968, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 2.0% of its visible face lit, 28.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

2.0%Illumination at noon UTC
28.3 dMoon age
374,228 km232,535 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (22°)
31.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 28, 1968 is on Monday, January 15, 1968 at 16:11 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 29, 1968 at 16:29 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around January 28

More about this date

Sunday, January 28, 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.