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The Moon on Friday, January 30, 1970: Last Quarter, 51% lit

Waning · 51.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 08°

Last Quarter at

14:39UTC

Moon phase on January 30, 1970Last Quarter

Friday 30 January 1970384,909 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 30, 1970, the Moon was a Last Quarter: 51.3% of its visible face lit, 22.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night. The exact Last Quarter happened at .

51.3%Illumination at noon UTC
22.6 dMoon age
384,909 km239,171 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (9°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 30, 1970 is on Thursday, January 22, 1970 at 12:56 UTC, 8 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, February 6, 1970 at 07:13 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, January 22, 197012:56
Last Quarter (this day)Friday, January 30, 197014:39
New Moon (after)Friday, February 6, 197007:13

The Moon around January 30

More about this date

Friday, January 30, 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.