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The Moon on Sunday, November 6, 2005: Waxing Crescent, 22% lit

Waxing · 22.3% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 10°

Moon age

4.4days

Moon phase on November 6, 2005Waxing Crescent

Sunday 6 November 2005372,901 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, November 6, 2005, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 22.3% of its visible face lit, 4.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

22.3%Illumination at noon UTC
4.4 dMoon age
372,901 km231,710 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (10°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to November 6, 2005 is on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 at 00:58 UTC, 10 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, November 2, 2005 at 01:25 UTC, 4 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Wednesday, November 2, 200501:25
First Quarter (after)Wednesday, November 9, 200501:57

The Moon around November 6

More about this date

Sunday, November 6, 2005 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 2, 2005 to the new moon of December 1, 2005, a cycle of 29.57 days.