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The Moon on Friday, October 7, 2005: Waxing Crescent, 17% lit

Waxing · 16.8% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 02°

Moon age

4.1days

Moon phase on October 7, 2005Waxing Crescent

Friday 7 October 2005382,475 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, October 7, 2005, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 16.8% of its visible face lit, 4.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

16.8%Illumination at noon UTC
4.1 dMoon age
382,475 km237,659 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (3°)
31.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 7, 2005 is on Monday, October 17, 2005 at 12:14 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, October 3, 2005 at 10:28 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Monday, October 3, 200510:28
First Quarter (after)Monday, October 10, 200519:01

The Moon around October 7

More about this date

Friday, October 7, 2005 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 3, 2005 to the new moon of November 2, 2005, a cycle of 29.62 days.