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The Moon on Sunday, January 9, 2005: Waning Crescent, 2% lit

Waning · 1.7% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 04°

Moon age

28.4days

Moon phase on January 9, 2005Waning Crescent

Sunday 9 January 2005357,422 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 9, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.7% of its visible face lit, 28.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.7%Illumination at noon UTC
28.4 dMoon age
357,422 km222,091 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (5°)
33.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 9, 2005 is on Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 15:07 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 10, 2005 at 12:03 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around January 9

More about this date

Sunday, January 9, 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.