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The Moon on Tuesday, September 27, 2005: Waning Crescent, 29% lit

Waning · 29.5% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 28°

Moon age

23.7days

Moon phase on September 27, 2005Waning Crescent

Tuesday 27 September 2005404,561 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, September 27, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 29.5% of its visible face lit, 23.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

29.5%Illumination at noon UTC
23.7 dMoon age
404,561 km251,383 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (29°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to September 27, 2005 is on Sunday, September 18, 2005 at 02:01 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, October 3, 2005 at 10:28 UTC, 6 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, September 25, 200506:41
New Moon (after)Monday, October 3, 200510:28

The Moon around September 27

More about this date

Tuesday, September 27, 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.