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The Moon on Sunday, January 28, 1973: Waning Crescent, 29% lit

Waning · 29.5% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 02°

Moon age

23.8days

Moon phase on January 28, 1973Waning Crescent

Sunday 28 January 1973404,933 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 28, 1973, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 29.5% of its visible face lit, 23.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

29.5%Illumination at noon UTC
23.8 dMoon age
404,933 km251,614 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (3°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 28, 1973 is on Thursday, January 18, 1973 at 21:28 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, February 3, 1973 at 09:23 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, January 26, 197306:05
New Moon (after)Saturday, February 3, 197309:23

The Moon around January 28

More about this date

Sunday, January 28, 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.