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The Moon on Sunday, January 25, 1970: Waning Gibbous, 92% lit

Waning · 92.4% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 07°

Moon age

17.6days

Moon phase on January 25, 1970Waning Gibbous

Sunday 25 January 1970404,056 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 25, 1970, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 92.4% of its visible face lit, 17.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

92.4%Illumination at noon UTC
17.6 dMoon age
404,056 km251,069 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (7°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 25, 1970 is on Thursday, January 22, 1970 at 12:56 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, February 6, 1970 at 07:13 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, January 22, 197012:56
Last Quarter (after)Friday, January 30, 197014:39

The Moon around January 25

More about this date

Sunday, January 25, 1970 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 7, 1970 to the new moon of February 6, 1970, a cycle of 29.44 days.