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The Moon on Tuesday, July 5, 2005: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 1.1% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 02°

Moon age

28.6days

Moon phase on July 5, 2005Waning Crescent

Tuesday 5 July 2005402,709 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, July 5, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.1% of its visible face lit, 28.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.1%Illumination at noon UTC
28.6 dMoon age
402,709 km250,232 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (2°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 5, 2005 is on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 at 04:14 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, July 6, 2005 at 12:03 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, June 28, 200518:24
New Moon (after)Wednesday, July 6, 200512:03

The Moon around July 5

More about this date

Tuesday, July 5, 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.