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The Moon on Saturday, January 29, 2005: Waning Gibbous, 85% lit

Waning · 85.4% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 24°

Moon age

19.0days

Moon phase on January 29, 2005Waning Gibbous

Saturday 29 January 2005396,361 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, January 29, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 85.4% of its visible face lit, 19.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

85.4%Illumination at noon UTC
19.0 dMoon age
396,361 km246,287 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (25°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 29, 2005 is on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 at 10:33 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, February 8, 2005 at 22:28 UTC, 10 days later.

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

The Moon around January 29

More about this date

Saturday, January 29, 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.