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The Moon on Tuesday, April 26, 2005: Waning Gibbous, 95% lit

Waning · 94.6% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 03°

Moon age

17.6days

Moon phase on April 26, 2005Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 26 April 2005372,290 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, April 26, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 94.6% of its visible face lit, 17.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

94.6%Illumination at noon UTC
17.6 dMoon age
372,290 km231,330 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (3°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 26, 2005 is on Sunday, April 24, 2005 at 10:07 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, May 8, 2005 at 08:46 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, April 24, 200510:07
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, May 1, 200506:24

The Moon around April 26

More about this date

Tuesday, April 26, 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.