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The Moon on Thursday, January 20, 2000: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.3% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 20°

Moon age

13.7days

Moon phase on January 20, 2000Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 20 January 2000359,625 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, January 20, 2000, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 13.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
13.7 dMoon age
359,625 km223,461 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (20°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 20, 2000 is on Friday, January 21, 2000 at 04:41 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 6, 2000 at 18:14 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Friday, January 14, 200013:34
Full Moon (after)Friday, January 21, 200004:41

The Moon around January 20

More about this date

Thursday, January 20, 2000 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of January 6, 2000 to the new moon of February 5, 2000, a cycle of 29.78 days.