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The Moon on Sunday, January 12, 1969: Waning Crescent, 40% lit

Waning · 40.1% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 03°

Moon age

23.7days

Moon phase on January 12, 1969Waning Crescent

Sunday 12 January 1969373,372 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 12, 1969, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 40.1% of its visible face lit, 23.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

40.1%Illumination at noon UTC
23.7 dMoon age
373,372 km232,002 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (4°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 12, 1969 is on Friday, January 3, 1969 at 18:28 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 18, 1969 at 04:59 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, January 11, 196914:00
New Moon (after)Saturday, January 18, 196904:59

The Moon around January 12

More about this date

Sunday, January 12, 1969 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 19, 1968 to the new moon of January 18, 1969, a cycle of 29.44 days.