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The Moon on Friday, April 22, 2005: Waxing Gibbous, 96% lit

Waxing · 95.8% lit · ♎︎ Libra 08°

Moon age

13.6days

Moon phase on April 22, 2005Waxing Gibbous

Friday 22 April 2005387,292 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, April 22, 2005, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 95.8% of its visible face lit, 13.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

95.8%Illumination at noon UTC
13.6 dMoon age
387,292 km240,652 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (9°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 22, 2005 is on Sunday, April 24, 2005 at 10:07 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 8, 2005 at 20:32 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, April 16, 200514:38
Full Moon (after)Sunday, April 24, 200510:07

The Moon around April 22

More about this date

Friday, April 22, 2005 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 8, 2005 to the new moon of May 8, 2005, a cycle of 29.51 days.