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The Moon on Saturday, January 1, 2000: Waning Crescent, 23% lit

Waning · 23.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 13°

Moon age

24.6days

Moon phase on January 1, 2000Waning Crescent

Saturday 1 January 2000402,440 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, January 1, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 23.0% of its visible face lit, 24.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

23.0%Illumination at noon UTC
24.6 dMoon age
402,440 km250,065 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (13°)
29.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 1, 2000 is on Wednesday, December 22, 1999 at 17:31 UTC, 10 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 6, 2000 at 18:14 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, December 29, 199914:05
New Moon (after)Thursday, January 6, 200018:14

The Moon around January 1

More about this date

Saturday, January 1, 2000 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 7, 1999 to the new moon of January 6, 2000, a cycle of 29.82 days.