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The Moon on Thursday, January 27, 2005: Waning Gibbous, 96% lit

Waning · 96.0% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 00°

Moon age

17.0days

Moon phase on January 27, 2005Waning Gibbous

Thursday 27 January 2005402,077 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, January 27, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 96.0% of its visible face lit, 17.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

96.0%Illumination at noon UTC
17.0 dMoon age
402,077 km249,839 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (0°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 27, 2005 is on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 at 10:33 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 at 22:28 UTC, 12 days later.

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

The Moon around January 27

More about this date

Thursday, January 27, 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.