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The Moon on Sunday, April 2, 2000: Waning Crescent, 6% lit

Waning · 6.0% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 14°

Moon age

27.3days

Moon phase on April 2, 2000Waning Crescent

Sunday 2 April 2000386,365 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, April 2, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 6.0% of its visible face lit, 27.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

6.0%Illumination at noon UTC
27.3 dMoon age
386,365 km240,076 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (15°)
30.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 2, 2000 is on Monday, March 20, 2000 at 04:45 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, April 4, 2000 at 18:12 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Tuesday, March 28, 200000:21
New Moon (after)Tuesday, April 4, 200018:12

The Moon around April 2

More about this date

Sunday, April 2, 2000 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 6, 2000 to the new moon of April 4, 2000, a cycle of 29.54 days.