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The Moon on Tuesday, January 4, 2000: Waning Crescent, 5% lit

Waning · 4.6% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 18°

Moon age

27.6days

Moon phase on January 4, 2000Waning Crescent

Tuesday 4 January 2000406,406 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 4, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 4.6% of its visible face lit, 27.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

4.6%Illumination at noon UTC
27.6 dMoon age
406,406 km252,529 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (19°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 4, 2000 is on Wednesday, December 22, 1999 at 17:31 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 6, 2000 at 18:14 UTC, 2 days later.

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

The Moon around January 4

More about this date

Tuesday, January 4, 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.