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The Moon on Friday, April 21, 2000: Waning Gibbous, 92% lit

Waning · 92.4% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 03°

Moon age

16.7days

Moon phase on April 21, 2000Waning Gibbous

Friday 21 April 2000399,869 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, April 21, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 92.4% of its visible face lit, 16.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

92.4%Illumination at noon UTC
16.7 dMoon age
399,869 km248,467 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (4°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to April 21, 2000 is on Tuesday, April 18, 2000 at 17:42 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, May 4, 2000 at 04:12 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, April 18, 200017:42
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, April 26, 200019:30

The Moon around April 21

More about this date

Friday, April 21, 2000 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 4, 2000 to the new moon of May 4, 2000, a cycle of 29.42 days.