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The Moon on Tuesday, January 21, 1975: Waxing Gibbous, 59% lit

Waxing · 58.8% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 10°

Moon age

9.1days

Moon phase on January 21, 1975Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 21 January 1975389,454 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 21, 1975, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 58.8% of its visible face lit, 9.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

58.8%Illumination at noon UTC
9.1 dMoon age
389,454 km241,995 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (11°)
30.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 21, 1975 is on Monday, January 27, 1975 at 15:10 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 12, 1975 at 10:20 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, January 20, 197515:15
Full Moon (after)Monday, January 27, 197515:10

The Moon around January 21

More about this date

Tuesday, January 21, 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.