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The Moon on Sunday, January 23, 2005: Waxing Gibbous, 97% lit

Waxing · 96.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 12°

Moon age

13.0days

Moon phase on January 23, 2005Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 23 January 2005406,403 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, January 23, 2005, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 96.5% of its visible face lit, 13.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

96.5%Illumination at noon UTC
13.0 dMoon age
406,403 km252,527 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (13°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 23, 2005 is on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 at 10:33 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, January 10, 2005 at 12:03 UTC, 13 days earlier.

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

The Moon around January 23

More about this date

Sunday, January 23, 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.