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The Moon on Friday, January 19, 1973: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.5% lit · ♌︎ Leo 07°

Moon age

14.8days

Moon phase on January 19, 1973Waning Gibbous

Friday 19 January 1973367,746 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 19, 1973, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.5% of its visible face lit, 14.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.5%Illumination at noon UTC
14.8 dMoon age
367,746 km228,507 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (7°)
32.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 19, 1973 is on Thursday, January 18, 1973 at 21:28 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 4, 1973 at 15:43 UTC, 15 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, January 18, 197321:28
Last Quarter (after)Friday, January 26, 197306:05

The Moon around January 19

More about this date

Friday, January 19, 1973 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 4, 1973 to the new moon of February 3, 1973, a cycle of 29.74 days.