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The Moon on Tuesday, January 18, 2005: Waxing Gibbous, 62% lit

Waxing · 62.2% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 12°

Moon age

8.0days

Moon phase on January 18, 2005Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 18 January 2005394,488 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 18, 2005, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 62.2% of its visible face lit, 8.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

62.2%Illumination at noon UTC
8.0 dMoon age
394,488 km245,123 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (12°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 18, 2005 is on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 at 10:33 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 10, 2005 at 12:03 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, January 17, 200506:58
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, January 25, 200510:33

The Moon around January 18

More about this date

Tuesday, January 18, 2005 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 10, 2005 to the new moon of February 8, 2005, a cycle of 29.43 days.