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The Moon on Sunday, October 23, 2005: Waning Gibbous, 65% lit

Waning · 64.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 13°

Moon age

20.1days

Moon phase on October 23, 2005Waning Gibbous

Sunday 23 October 2005399,125 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, October 23, 2005, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 64.8% of its visible face lit, 20.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

64.8%Illumination at noon UTC
20.1 dMoon age
399,125 km248,005 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (13°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 23, 2005 is on Monday, October 17, 2005 at 12:14 UTC, 6 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, November 2, 2005 at 01:25 UTC, 10 days later.

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

The Moon around October 23

More about this date

Sunday, October 23, 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.