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The Moon on Wednesday, June 15, 2005: First Quarter, 54% lit

Waxing · 54.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 29°

First Quarter at

01:22UTC

Moon phase on June 15, 2005First Quarter

Wednesday 15 June 2005395,334 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, June 15, 2005, the Moon was a First Quarter: 54.5% of its visible face lit, 8.6 days after the new moon and growing each night. The exact First Quarter happened at .

54.5%Illumination at noon UTC
8.6 dMoon age
395,334 km245,649 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (29°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 15, 2005 is on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 at 04:14 UTC, 7 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, June 6, 2005 at 21:55 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, June 6, 200521:55
First Quarter (this day)Wednesday, June 15, 200501:22
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, June 22, 200504:14

The Moon around June 15

More about this date

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 6, 2005 to the new moon of July 6, 2005, a cycle of 29.59 days.