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The Moon on Thursday, January 9, 1975: Waning Crescent, 8% lit

Waning · 8.2% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 15°

Moon age

26.8days

Moon phase on January 9, 1975Waning Crescent

Thursday 9 January 1975393,341 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, January 9, 1975, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 8.2% of its visible face lit, 26.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

8.2%Illumination at noon UTC
26.8 dMoon age
393,341 km244,411 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (15°)
30.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 9, 1975 is on Sunday, December 29, 1974 at 03:51 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 12, 1975 at 10:20 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, January 4, 197519:04
New Moon (after)Sunday, January 12, 197510:20

The Moon around January 9

More about this date

Thursday, January 9, 1975 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 13, 1974 to the new moon of January 12, 1975, a cycle of 29.75 days.