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The Moon on Monday, January 26, 1976: Waning Crescent, 23% lit

Waning · 23.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 08°

Moon age

24.9days

Moon phase on January 26, 1976Waning Crescent

Monday 26 January 1976378,251 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, January 26, 1976, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 23.4% of its visible face lit, 24.9 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

23.4%Illumination at noon UTC
24.9 dMoon age
378,251 km235,034 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (8°)
31.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 26, 1976 is on Saturday, January 17, 1976 at 04:47 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, January 31, 1976 at 06:20 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, January 23, 197623:05
New Moon (after)Saturday, January 31, 197606:20

The Moon around January 26

More about this date

Monday, January 26, 1976 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 1, 1976 to the new moon of January 31, 1976, a cycle of 29.65 days.