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The Moon on Wednesday, August 24, 2005: Waning Gibbous, 72% lit

Waning · 71.8% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 05°

Moon age

19.4days

Moon phase on August 24, 2005Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 24 August 2005378,896 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, August 24, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 71.8% of its visible face lit, 19.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

71.8%Illumination at noon UTC
19.4 dMoon age
378,896 km235,435 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (6°)
31.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to August 24, 2005 is on Friday, August 19, 2005 at 17:53 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, September 3, 2005 at 18:46 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, August 19, 200517:53
Last Quarter (after)Friday, August 26, 200515:18

The Moon around August 24

More about this date

Wednesday, August 24, 2005 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of August 5, 2005 to the new moon of September 3, 2005, a cycle of 29.65 days.