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The Moon on Sunday, January 9, 1972: Waning Crescent, 41% lit

Waning · 41.4% lit · ♎︎ Libra 28°

Moon age

22.7days

Moon phase on January 9, 1972Waning Crescent

Sunday 9 January 1972404,368 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 9, 1972, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 41.4% of its visible face lit, 22.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

41.4%Illumination at noon UTC
22.7 dMoon age
404,368 km251,263 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (28°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 9, 1972 is on Friday, December 31, 1971 at 20:20 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 16, 1972 at 10:53 UTC, 7 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, January 8, 197213:31
New Moon (after)Sunday, January 16, 197210:53

The Moon around January 9

More about this date

Sunday, January 9, 1972 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 17, 1971 to the new moon of January 16, 1972, a cycle of 29.66 days.