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The Moon on Friday, January 21, 2005: Waxing Gibbous, 87% lit

Waxing · 86.7% lit · ♊︎ Gemini 18°

Moon age

11.0days

Moon phase on January 21, 2005Waxing Gibbous

Friday 21 January 2005404,394 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, January 21, 2005, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 86.7% of its visible face lit, 11.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

86.7%Illumination at noon UTC
11.0 dMoon age
404,394 km251,279 mi from Earth
♊︎ GeminiMoon sign (19°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 21, 2005 is on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 at 10:33 UTC, 4 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 10, 2005 at 12:03 UTC, 11 days earlier.

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

The Moon around January 21

More about this date

Friday, January 21, 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.