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The Moon on Thursday, January 6, 2005: Waning Crescent, 22% lit

Waning · 21.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 20°

Moon age

25.4days

Moon phase on January 6, 2005Waning Crescent

Thursday 6 January 2005370,026 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, January 6, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 21.9% of its visible face lit, 25.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

21.9%Illumination at noon UTC
25.4 dMoon age
370,026 km229,924 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (21°)
32.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 6, 2005 is on Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 15:07 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 10, 2005 at 12:03 UTC, 4 days later.

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

The Moon around January 6

More about this date

Thursday, January 6, 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.