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The Moon on Thursday, September 22, 2005: Waning Gibbous, 77% lit

Waning · 76.8% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 27°

Moon age

18.7days

Moon phase on September 22, 2005Waning Gibbous

Thursday 22 September 2005384,308 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, September 22, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 76.8% of its visible face lit, 18.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

76.8%Illumination at noon UTC
18.7 dMoon age
384,308 km238,798 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (27°)
31.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 22, 2005 is on Sunday, September 18, 2005 at 02:01 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, October 3, 2005 at 10:28 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, September 18, 200502:01
Last Quarter (after)Sunday, September 25, 200506:41

The Moon around September 22

More about this date

Thursday, September 22, 2005 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 3, 2005 to the new moon of October 3, 2005, a cycle of 29.65 days.