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The Moon on Saturday, October 22, 2005: Waning Gibbous, 74% lit

Waning · 73.9% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 00°

Moon age

19.1days

Moon phase on October 22, 2005Waning Gibbous

Saturday 22 October 2005395,053 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, October 22, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 73.9% of its visible face lit, 19.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

73.9%Illumination at noon UTC
19.1 dMoon age
395,053 km245,474 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (1°)
30.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 22, 2005 is on Monday, October 17, 2005 at 12:14 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, November 2, 2005 at 01:25 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, October 17, 200512:14
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, October 25, 200501:17

The Moon around October 22

More about this date

Saturday, October 22, 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.