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The Moon on Sunday, January 12, 1975: New Moon, 0% lit

Waxing · 0.1% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 22°

New Moon at

10:20UTC

Moon phase on January 12, 1975New Moon

Sunday 12 January 1975401,830 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 12, 1975, the Moon was a New Moon: 0.1% of its visible face lit, 29.8 days after the new moon and between the Earth and the Sun, so it is not visible. The exact New Moon happened at .

0.1%Illumination at noon UTC
29.8 dMoon age
401,830 km249,686 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (22°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
NewDark side faces Earth

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 12, 1975 is on Sunday, December 29, 1974 at 03:51 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 12, 1975 at 10:20 UTC, the same day.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Saturday, January 4, 197519:04
New Moon (this day)Sunday, January 12, 197510:20
First Quarter (after)Monday, January 20, 197515:15

The Moon around January 12

More about this date

Sunday, January 12, 1975 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 12, 1975 to the new moon of February 11, 1975, a cycle of 29.79 days.