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The Moon on Saturday, January 22, 2005: Waxing Gibbous, 92% lit

Waxing · 92.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 00°

Moon age

12.0days

Moon phase on January 22, 2005Waxing Gibbous

Saturday 22 January 2005405,812 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, January 22, 2005, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 92.3% of its visible face lit, 12.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

92.3%Illumination at noon UTC
12.0 dMoon age
405,812 km252,160 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (1°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 22, 2005 is on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 at 10:33 UTC, 3 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 10, 2005 at 12:03 UTC, 12 days earlier.

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

The Moon around January 22

More about this date

Saturday, January 22, 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.