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The Moon on Wednesday, January 5, 2000: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 1.5% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 00°

Moon age

28.6days

Moon phase on January 5, 2000Waning Crescent

Wednesday 5 January 2000406,055 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, January 5, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 1.5% of its visible face lit, 28.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

1.5%Illumination at noon UTC
28.6 dMoon age
406,055 km252,311 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (1°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

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

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

The Moon around January 5

More about this date

Wednesday, January 5, 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.