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The Moon on Friday, July 15, 2005: Waxing Gibbous, 59% lit

Waxing · 59.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 03°

Moon age

9.0days

Moon phase on July 15, 2005Waxing Gibbous

Friday 15 July 2005385,134 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, July 15, 2005, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 59.0% of its visible face lit, 9.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

59.0%Illumination at noon UTC
9.0 dMoon age
385,134 km239,311 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (3°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 15, 2005 is on Thursday, July 21, 2005 at 11:00 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, July 6, 2005 at 12:03 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, July 14, 200515:20
Full Moon (after)Thursday, July 21, 200511:00

The Moon around July 15

More about this date

Friday, July 15, 2005 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 6, 2005 to the new moon of August 5, 2005, a cycle of 29.63 days.