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The Moon on Wednesday, January 5, 2005: Waning Crescent, 32% lit

Waning · 31.8% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 06°

Moon age

24.4days

Moon phase on January 5, 2005Waning Crescent

Wednesday 5 January 2005376,105 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 5, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 31.8% of its visible face lit, 24.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

31.8%Illumination at noon UTC
24.4 dMoon age
376,105 km233,701 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (7°)
31.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 5, 2005 is on Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 15:07 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 10, 2005 at 12:03 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Monday, January 3, 200517:46
New Moon (after)Monday, January 10, 200512:03

The Moon around January 5

More about this date

Wednesday, January 5, 2005 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 12, 2004 to the new moon of January 10, 2005, a cycle of 29.44 days.