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The Moon on Saturday, May 7, 2005: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.8% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 06°

Moon age

28.6days

Moon phase on May 7, 2005Waning Crescent

Saturday 7 May 2005384,950 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, May 7, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.8% of its visible face lit, 28.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.8%Illumination at noon UTC
28.6 dMoon age
384,950 km239,197 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (7°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 7, 2005 is on Sunday, April 24, 2005 at 10:07 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, May 8, 2005 at 08:46 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, May 1, 200506:24
New Moon (after)Sunday, May 8, 200508:46

The Moon around May 7

More about this date

Saturday, May 7, 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.