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The Moon on Wednesday, January 26, 2005: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 98.8% lit · ♌︎ Leo 18°

Moon age

16.0days

Moon phase on January 26, 2005Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 26 January 2005404,056 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 26, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 98.8% of its visible face lit, 16.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

98.8%Illumination at noon UTC
16.0 dMoon age
404,056 km251,069 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (18°)
29.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 26, 2005 is on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 at 10:33 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 at 22:28 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, January 25, 200510:33
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, February 2, 200507:27

The Moon around January 26

More about this date

Wednesday, January 26, 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.