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The Moon on Friday, January 17, 1969: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.9% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 17°

Moon age

28.7days

Moon phase on January 17, 1969Waning Crescent

Friday 17 January 1969359,473 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 17, 1969, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.9% of its visible face lit, 28.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.9%Illumination at noon UTC
28.7 dMoon age
359,473 km223,366 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (17°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 17, 1969 is on Friday, January 3, 1969 at 18:28 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 18, 1969 at 04:59 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around January 17

More about this date

Friday, January 17, 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.