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The Moon on Friday, January 14, 1972: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 4.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 29°

Moon age

27.7days

Moon phase on January 14, 1972Waning Crescent

Friday 14 January 1972389,407 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 14, 1972, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.3% of its visible face lit, 27.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.3%Illumination at noon UTC
27.7 dMoon age
389,407 km241,966 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (30°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 14, 1972 is on Friday, December 31, 1971 at 20:20 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 16, 1972 at 10:53 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around January 14

More about this date

Friday, January 14, 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.