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The Moon on Sunday, May 22, 2005: Waxing Gibbous, 98% lit

Waxing · 97.6% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 13°

Moon age

14.1days

Moon phase on May 22, 2005Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 22 May 2005374,329 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, May 22, 2005, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 97.6% of its visible face lit, 14.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

97.6%Illumination at noon UTC
14.1 dMoon age
374,329 km232,597 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (14°)
31.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 22, 2005 is on Monday, May 23, 2005 at 20:18 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, May 8, 2005 at 08:46 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, May 16, 200508:57
Full Moon (after)Monday, May 23, 200520:18

The Moon around May 22

More about this date

Sunday, May 22, 2005 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 8, 2005 to the new moon of June 6, 2005, a cycle of 29.55 days.