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The Moon on Sunday, February 6, 2000: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 0.9% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 27°

Moon age

1.0days

Moon phase on February 6, 2000Waxing Crescent

Sunday 6 February 2000394,750 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, February 6, 2000, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 0.9% of its visible face lit, 1.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

0.9%Illumination at noon UTC
1.0 dMoon age
394,750 km245,286 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (28°)
30.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to February 6, 2000 is on Saturday, February 19, 2000 at 16:27 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Saturday, February 5, 2000 at 13:04 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Saturday, February 5, 200013:04
First Quarter (after)Saturday, February 12, 200023:22

The Moon around February 6

More about this date

Sunday, February 6, 2000 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 5, 2000 to the new moon of March 6, 2000, a cycle of 29.68 days.